S/Sgt. Winfred Horace Adair

Home: 617 North Sixth Avenue - Evansville, Indiana

    - 1935 - living in Nashville, Tennessee

Enlisted:

    - U.S. Army 

        - 19 December 1939

Unit:

    - A Company, 19th Ordnance Battalion

    - company reorganized as 17th Ordnance Company

Training:

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

    - Ft. Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

        - serviced tanks of the Provisional Tank Group 

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 

Prisoner of War:

    - 9 April 1941

        - Death March

POW Camps:

    - Philippine Islands:

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan

Japan:

        - Fukuoka #3B

            - Work: Yawata Steel Mills

Hell Ship:

    - Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 14 July 1944

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 17 July 1944

        - Sailed: 28 July 1944 

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944

Liberated:

    - 13 September 1945

        - returned to U. S. on Simon Bolivar

            - 21 October 1945 

Discharged: 4 February 1946

Married: Clara

Residence: Worthington, Ohio

Occupation: plumber

Children: 1 daughter, 1 son

Died:

    - 24 September 1994 - Columbus, Ohio

Buried:

     - Saint Joseph Cemetery - Columbus, Ohio

         - Plot: St. Mark  Lot: 726  Grave: 1 

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