Tec 5 Everett Earl Ferguson

Home: Lyon County, Kentucky

Parents: Marvin B. Ferguson & Katie W. Adams-Ferguson

Siblings: 3 brothers, 5 sisters (known)

Hometown: Eddyville, Kentucky

Occupation: Farmer

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 22 January 1941 - Louisville, Kentucky

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

        - tank driver

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon 

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

     9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs started march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanesee artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - 100 POWs packed into each car
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

                - Everett considered "too ill" to be moved to the camp 

Died:

    - 10 June 1942 - vincente angina

Buried:

    - Millwood Cemetery - Princeton, Kentucky

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