Garland

Born: 7 April 1919 - Cleveland, Ohio

Parents: Thomas & Bertha Garland

- family lived in Newburgh Heights, Ohio in 1920

Home: Lakewood, Ohio

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 28 March 1941

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,

Japan:

Omine Machi

Work: Coal mining

Hell Ship:

- Canadian Inventor

- Sailed: Manila - 4 August 1944

- Returned to Manila

- Sailed: - 16 August 1944

- Arrived: 23 July 1944 - Takao, Formosa

- Sailed: 4 August 1944

- Arrived: 5 August 1944 - Keelung, Formosa

- ship stayed for 12 days

- Sailed: 17 August 1944

- Arrived: Unknown - Naha, Okinawa

- stayed six days - boiler repairs

- Sailed: Unknown

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 1 September 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 3 May 1946

Married:

- 1 daughter by first wife

- Vera M. Cook - 16 June 1960 - Lexington, Kentucky

- 1 son, 1 daughter

Died: 28 January 1981 - Chardon, Ohio