Pfc. Charles Edmond Reed

Parents: Charles Reed & Lanta Mae Sims-Reed

Siblings: 6 brothers, 5 sisters

Enlisted:

    - Kentucky National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940 - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Training:

     - Tank Driver

Overseas Duty: 

     - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

     - Battle of Luzon

     - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs started 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 

        - Calauan

            - Bridge Building Detail

        - Cabanatuan

        - Bilibid Prison

    - Japan: 

         - Niigata 5-B

            - Work: Stevedore

Hell Ship:

    - Taga Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 20 September 1943

             Note: Ship stopped at Takao, Formosa

        - Arrived: Moji - 5 October 1943

Married: Iva Pearl Yates

Died: 11 August 1967

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