Goodpaster

Born: 4 January 1920 - Burnam, Madison County, Kentucky

Parents: Roy E. Goodpaster & Nora Young-Goodpaster

Siblings: 2 sisters

Home: West Broadway Street - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

- house was located between North College Street and North Chiles Street

Occupation: Road Construction - Works Project Administration

Enlisted:

- 20 November 1940

- Kentucky National Guard

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 25 November 1940

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

- tank driver

Overseas Duty:

Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

           - Mariveles - POWs started march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate

- Cabanatuan #1

- Port Area Detail

- 13 June 1942 - July 1944

- Roy remained behind with a small group of POWs after most of the

POWs were sent to Japan.

- Bilibid Prison

- Japan:

- Fukuoka #4

- Moji Hospital

Hell Ship:

- Oryoku Maru -

- Sailed - Manila - 13 December 1944