S/Sgt. Donald M. Barden

Home: Richmond County, Georgia

Occupation: worked in shoe store

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 24 July 1940 - Fort Benning, Georgia

Occupation: Worked in shoe store

Training: 

    - Fort Benning, Georgia

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

        - 753rd Tank Battalion sent to Louisiana but did not take part in maneuvers 

Units:

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

        - volunteered to replace a National Guardsman released from federal service 

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

        - Attached to 194th Tank Battalion

        - company remained under command of the 192nd Tank Battalion 

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

            -  the night of 8 April 1942 - escaped by boat to Corregidor

    - Battle of Corregidor

        - 9 April 1942 - 6 May 1942 

Prisoner of War:

    - 6 May 1942 

POW Camps:

    - Cabanatuan

    - Lipa, Batangas 

        - POWs built runways and revetments with picks and shovels 

Hell Ship: 

    Arisan Maru - 10 October 1944 - 24 October, 1944

Died: 24 October 1944

Note: His parents had his name put on their headstone at Greenwood Memorial Gardens - Hodges,

            South Carolina

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