Dockins

Born: 8 May 1921 - Logan County, Kentucky

Parents: Homer & Dallie Dockins

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Hometown: Lewisburg, Kentucky

Enlisted:

- 19 January 1941

- Ashford General Hospital, West Virginia

Unit:

- Company A, 19th Ordnance Battalion

- 17th Ordnance Company was organized from the battalion

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

Overseas Duty:

- Ft. Stotsenburg - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- 8 December 1942 - 6 January 1942

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1941

- Death March

            - POWs started march at Mariveles on the southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery shelling Corregidor
                - American artillery returning fire - knock out three of the four

Japanese cannons
- San Fernando - POWs put in small wooden boxcars used to haul

              sugarcane
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses of forty men
                - 100 POWs were packed into each boxcar
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - those who died fall out of boxcars
            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps:

- Philippine Islands:

- Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as a POW camp
            - there was only one water spigot for the entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - the Japanese opened a new camp, at Cabanatuan, to lower death rate

- Cabanatuan

- Japan

- Fukuoka #23

- coal mining

Hell Ship:

- Nissyo Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 14 July 1944

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 6 August 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Military Career:

- U.S. Air Force

Married: Marie Paisley

Died: 18 August 1970 - Logan County, Kentucky

Buried:

- Pleasant Hill Cemetery - Auburn, Kentucky