Fusselman

Born: May 1919 - Washington County, Oklahoma

Parents: Clifford R. Fusselman & Dona V. Price-Fusselman

Siblings: 2 sisters, 2 brothers

Nickname: "Jack"

Home: Washington County, Oklahoma

Occupation:

- roustabout oil industry

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 19 March 1941 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

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

           - 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 #1

- Bilibid Prison

- Formosa:

- Inrin Temporary - two month stay

- Japan:

- Sendai #3

- Shinagawa Hospital

Hell Ships:

- Hokusen Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

- Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

- Sailed: Hong Kong