Cpl. Harlin Owens

Parents: Reace E. Owens & Effie McKinney-Owens

Siblings: 2 sisters, 4 brothers

Home: 665 Larch Street Potlatch, Idaho

Occupation: lumber yard worker

Enlisted: Idaho National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 16 September 1940 - Pullman, Washington

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

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 start 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

        - Bilibid Prison

    - Japan:

        - Fukuoka #17

            - POWs arrive 10 August 1943

            - POWs were used as slave labor in coal mine

Hell Ship:

    - Clyde Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 18 March 1946

Married: 22 February 1946

Died: 6 December 1991 - Princeton, Idaho

    - Mendenhall Cemetery -Latah County, Idaho

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