Pfc. Patrick F. Boone

Hometown: Leitchfield, Kentucky

Parents: Frank Boone & Mary Anna Lush-Boone

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 22 January 1941 - Louisville

Training:

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

        - assigned to D Company

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 8 April 1942 - night before Bataan surrendered - escaped to Corregidor

Prisoner of War:

    - 6 May 1942

        - Corregidor surrenders

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands:

        - Cabanatuan

        - Lipa, Batangas

            - POWs built runways and revetments with picks and shovels 

    - Formosa:

        - Inrin Temporary Camp

     - Japan: 

        - Sendai  #7

            - Work: copper mine

        - Aisho Camp

            - Work: copper mine

                - Note: POWs wore straw shoes - when wet, the POWs feet froze or got frostbite.

Hell Ships:

    - Hokusen Maru

        - Boarded: 1 October 1944

        - Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

        - Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

        - Sailed: Hong Kong - 21 October 1944

        - Arrived: Formosa - 11 November 1944

    - Melbourne Maru

        - Sailed: Formosa - 14 January 1945

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 23 January 1945

Liberated: September 1945

Wife: Anna Louise Boone

Home: Patrick F. Boone still resides in Leitchfield, Kentucky.

            - He is the last living member of D Company. 

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