Pvt. James Finley

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 17 March 1941 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units: 

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

   - Battle of Luzon

   - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

       - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start 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

          - 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 

        - Cabanatuan

    Japan:  

       - Fukuoka #17

           - Work: coal mining

Hell Ship:

    - Clyde Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji - 7 August 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 8 March 1946

Wife: Grace Amelia Leonard

Died: 9 March 1974 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Buried: Arlington Memorial Gardens - Spencer, Oklahoma

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