Samuel Lawrence Heisinger, Jr.

 

Major Samuel Lawrence Heisinger, Jr. USAR Graduate, University of California       Hastings College of the Law, 1927   Born: 2 September 1902, California Died 13 January 1945, Takao, Formosa   California National Guard, volunteer call up Assigned: Philippine Department, Manila from May 1941 Judge Advocate Department   After assignment on Bataan (January-March 1942), taken prisoner on Corregidor 6 May 1942. POW time in the following camps: 92nd Garage Area, Corregidor May 1942 Bilibid Prison, Manila---June 1942  Cabanatuan Camp #1---June - October 1942 Davao Penal Colony, Mindanao---November 1942 - June 1944 Cabanatuan Camp #1---July 1944 - October 1944 Bilibid Prison, Manila---October - December 1944   Departed Manila aboard Oryoku Maru (after hold) 13 December 1944, after getting ashore confined in tennis courts Subic Bay Naval Base for 4-5 days. Transported by truck to San Fernando, Pampanga where after several days moved by train box car to San Fernando, La Union in late December 1944. Placed aboard Enoura Maru to Takao, Formosa (now Kaohsiung, Taiwan) where after bombing of 9 January 1945 died on 13 January. Buried ashore with over 400 others. Removed (unidentified) in 1946 and re-interred in Punchbowl Cemetery, Honolulu in 1949.   Samuel Lawrence Heisinger left a wife Grace Elizabeth and three sons, Duane, Douglas and Gary who with their wives and families live in California and Virginia. Duane in his book, Father Found, tells the story of his father’s life and death as a Japanese prisoner of war. .

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