Coast Artillery

[kpdalton]

My finacee and I have been researching her grandfather, Pfc. Esteban Foronda, through the National Archives and other usual sources. We've been able to determine that he was in the 91st or 92nd Coast Artillery, working one of the disappearing guns around Manila Bay, retreated into Bataan with the rest of the Scouts, survived the Death March, and was imprisoned for three years in a camp on Luzon before being rescued early in 1945.

The records don't tell us which regiment he was in, or which camp he was rescued from. Any ideas on how to narrow it down?

[oklahoma]

Hi kp....If you have found that this soldier was in a Battery that served "disappering guns" and retreated into Bataan, I wonder if he might have been at Fort Wint (Subic Bay) rather than Corregidor. To have been a Bataan Death March survivor, it would appear he never made it to Corregidor to be assigned to the Scout manned Batteries at that location. Just an uneducated guess on my part. I hope you are successful in your pursuit of the facts concerning this gunner.