Janesville Tank Company

Janesville Tank Company (HMVO4)

Location: Janesville, WI 53548 Rock County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 40.81', W 89° 1.66'

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During the 1930s, the Janesville National Guard armory was headquarters for the 32nd Tank Company, a unit of Wisconsin's famed Thirty-Second Division, which had been reorganized after World War I and equipped with light tanks. In November 1940, as part of the mobilization ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unit was melded with three other midwestern National Guard units and redesignated Company A of the 192nd Tank Batallion. Within a year, the Janesville tank company had been trained and dispatched to the Philippine Islands.

Following the outbreak of war on December 7, 1941, members of Company A became the first of 330,000 Wisconsin residents to engage the enemy. During a harrowing four-month defense of the Bataan Peninsula, short of supplies and devoid of air cover, the Janesville tank unit fought bravely alongside other American and Filipino forces until surrendering on April 9, 1942. As prisoners of war, the Janesville men participated in the infamous Bataan Death March. Of the original ninety-nine members of the unit, only thirty-five survived imprisonment by the Japanese.
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HM NumberHMVO4
Series This marker is part of the Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society series
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Marker Number298
Year Placed1990
Placed ByThe Wisconsin Historical Society
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Date Added Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 at 11:21am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)16T E 333870 N 4727292
Decimal Degrees42.68016667, -89.02766667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 40.81', W 89° 1.66'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 40' 48.60" N, 89° 1' 39.60" W
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Area Code(s)608
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 10 S High St, Janesville WI 53548, US
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