"I was helping with the burial detail now; I couldn't get out of it as there weren't enough healthy men left."

http://www.amazon.com/Abandoned-Bataan-Mans-Story-Survival/dp/0971318417

Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival [Paperback]

Oliver Craig Allen (Author), Mildred Faye Allen (Author)






P. 92

"Three rooms of the school building were hospital wards.  In ward two, the men were sick but could get around a bit.  In ward one, they were too sick to move about.  Zero ward was where hey were taken to die.  We had one crew at the bridge and one crew working in the scrap lumber pile, making boxes to bury American soldiers.  I'm happy to say these men were buried in a Filipino cemetery; this was not necessarily true of most of the men who died in the Philippines.

I was helping with the burial detail now; I couldn't get out of it as there weren't enough healthy men left.  When we got back from the bridge work at the end of the day, we'd find that he few men who were strong enough to use a shovel would have dug he graves. Then those of us who were on bridge detail would take the bodies to the cemetery for burial."