Sgt. Claude Likens

Parents: Henry & Pearl Likens

Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers

Home: 18th Street Road, Kosmosdale, Kentucky

Employed:

    - Kosmos Portland Cement Company

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army  

        - 1 March 1941 - Louisville, Kentucky

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Stationed:

    - Fort Stotsenburg

         - At Clark Airfield when Japan bombed it - 8 December 1941

    - Fort Drum

        - assigned to fort after escaping Bataan

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon 

        - D Company tanks went north to Lingayen Gulf, in support of B Company,

          where Japanese were landing troops - 21 December 1941

        - fought in battle at Agno River - 24 December 1941

    - Battle of Bataan

        - major tank battle near the Bagac Road

    - Battle of Corregidor

        - 9 April 1942 - when ordered to surrender, he swam to Corregidor

POW: 

    - 6 May 1942

        - sent out on work detail to Marinduque

            - appears POWs rebuilt WaWa Dam on Boac River

            - detail ended 18 May 1942

Camps:

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Bilibid Prison

            - arrived - 18 May 1942

        - Cabanatuan 

           - arrived - 26 May 1942

           - departed - 18 September 1942

               - returned to Bilibid Prison

               - taken to Port Area of Manila

    - Formosa: 

        - Taichu Camp - two months in camp

    - Japan: 

        - Tokyo #1D

        - Omori Headquarters Camp

            - Work: stevedore - Yokohama Ship Yard

Hell Ships: 

    - Lima Maru

        - Sailed: Manila  - 20 September 1942

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - September 1942

        - Sailed: Dai Nichi Maru - 13 November 1942

        - Arrived: Yokohama, Japan  -  28 November 1942

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 3 May 1946

Died: 12 December 1996 - West Point, Kentucky

Buried: Bethany Memorial Cemetery - Louisville, Kentucky

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