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Cpl. Fred Joseph Allen |
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17 April 1920 - Kentucky Parents: Lawrence J. Allen Sr. & Sadie Belle Felker-Allen Siblings: 2 sisters, 2 brothers, 3 half-sisters Home: 3505 Greenwood Avenue - Louisville, Kentucky Enlisted: 17 June 1940 - Louisville, Kentucky Unit: - A Company, 19th Ordnance Battalion - Reorganized as: 17th Ordnance Company Training: - Ft. Knox, Kentucky - Ft. Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands Overseas Duty: - Philippine Islands 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 - Mariveles - POWs started march at southern tip of Bataan - POWs ran past Japanese artillery that was firing at Corregidor - American artillery returned fire - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane - each boxcar could hold hold eight horses or 40 men - Japanese packed 100 POWs into each car - POWs that died remained standing - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead fell to floors of boxcars POW Camps: - Philippine Islands: - Camp O'Donnell - unfinished Filipino training base - Japanese put base into use as a POW camp - one water spigot for the entire camp - As many as 50 POWs died each day - Japanese opened new camp at Cabanatuan in an attempt to lower death rate - Cabanatuan Korea: - Jinsen, Korea Hell Ship: - Tottori Maru - Sailed: Manila - 8 October 1942 - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 16 October 1942 - Sailed: Takao, Formosa - 19 October 1942 - Arrived: Pusan, Korea - November 1942 Note: - Ship returned to Takao several times during its one week stay. POWs disembarked and were hosed down with fire hose. - Ship also avoided typhoon during trip. Died: - 8 December 1942 - Jinsen, Korea - Cause: beriberi & pellagra - Note: The dead were transported to Mukden, Manchuria for burial. Buried: - ashes of dead POWs transported to Mukden, Manchuria - given to camp commandant Reburied: - February 1949 - Saint James Cemetery - Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
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