Received the sad news today that we have lost another member of the 192nd Tank Battalion. Silas LeGrow, Co. C, 192nd Tank Battalion, died on January 15, 2013. He was 90 years old. We join his family and friends in honoring his service and mourning the loss. To read more about LeGrow’s service record, please go here:...
read morePvt Thomas Peter Motosko, the last survivor of HQ Co., 192nd Tank Battalion, passed away on February 20, 2013 at the age of 93. We honor his service and mourn his loss. Read more about his service record here: http://www.proviso.k12.il.us/bataan%20web/Motosko.htm And read his obituary here:...
read moreJust received the sad news that we have lost another of the few remaining survivors of Co. B of the 192nd Tank Battalion. Pvt. Joseph Donald Lajzer died on Saturday, March 16, 2013. Mr. Lajzer was born in Clinton Ohio, and volunteered to go with the 192nd Tank Battalion when it was shipped out to the Philippines in 1941. Capture...
read moreA note from one of the people whom President Richard McMahon has helped with getting medals from WWII. His uncle, Leo Spencer, was a regular Maywood Bataan Day attendee in honor of his brother, Sgt. Norman Spencer. My uncle Leo Spencer , Norman’s brother, died earlier this month . He had been unable to attend last...
read moreSeventy-two years after the 192nd Tank Battalion was formed by federalizing National Guard tank groups from 4 different states, we are still making changes to the roster of the 192nd. Today, we added Pvt. Joseph P Henderson to the Co. B roster. The research was done by Jim Opolony of the Proviso Bataan Commemorative Research...
read moreReceived the sad news today that the last surviving member of Co. A, Pvt. Albert DuBois of the 192nd Tank Battalion passed away on August 3rd. Albert DuBois was a tank driver and survived the Death March, Cabanatuan imprisonment, hell ships and slave labor. He was 94 years old. We join his family and friends in honoring his service...
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