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Augustine J. Quevas

Augustine J. Quevas, Sgt, Air Corps 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group (Heavy) perished on the Hell ship called Shinyo Maru.  He is listed as MIA as of the date of the sinking, September 7, 1944.  He is listed on the Tablets of the Missing in Manila National Cemetery.  His home state was California.  He was captured on Bataan and endured the Bataan Death March, taken to Cabanatuan then on various slave details including the Davao POW Camp.  He was en route from Davao to Manila when his ship was torpedoed by an American submarine and sank.