About
World War II (1939-1945)
Brewster Garroway Gallup was born in Schenectady, New York, on September 12, 1912. In 1930, he left Schenectady to attend Pennsylvania State College, where he graduated in 1934; by 1935, he had moved to Oklahoma.
Brewster enlisted in the United States Army. He volunteered for service in the Philippines and arrived there in January 1941 aboard the USS Grant. He was stationed on Corregidor until its surrender in May 1942, at which point he became a prisoner of war under Japanese control. He was a prisoner on the POW transport ship Arisan Maru when it sank on October 24, 1944. The ship carried 1782 US prisoners of war; 1777 were lost at sea. He is remembered at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.
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Sources: Find A Grave, Ancestry