Pvt. Elmore Walter Pattison

Parents: Walter C. Pattison & Mada Kuhn-Pattison

Siblings: 2 sisters, 4 brothers

Hometown: Bedford, Michigan

Inducted:  

    - U.S. Army

        - 28 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

    - 6 May 1942

       - Escaped to Corregidor

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Cabanatuan

    - Japan: 

        - Fukuoka #17

            - Work: coal mining

Hell Ship: 

    - Clyde Maru  

        - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Note: Possibly served in Korean War

            - discharged because of wounds 

Died: Florida

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