Pvt. Ernest Logan Sampson Jr.

Parents: Ernest L. Sampson Sr. & Eva E. Brown-Sampson

Siblings: 3 sisters, 3 brothers

Home: Mercer County, Kentucky

Enlisted: 

    - Kentucky National Guard

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940, Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

    - Battle of Corregidor

       - escaped to Corregidor the night of 8 April 1942

       - Bataan officially surrendered - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War: 

    - 6 May 1942

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands:

        - Cabanatuan

        - Bachrach Garage Detail

            - POWs repaired vehicles for the Japanese

    - Japan: 

        - Narumi Camp

            - Work:  wheel manufacturing - Nippon Wheel Manufacturing Company

Hell Ship:

    - Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944 

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 27 July 1944

        - Sailed: Takao - 28 July 1944

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 8 April 1946

Married: Sadie McRay-Sampson

Children: 1 son

Occupation: Farmer

Died: 1 December 2001 - Mercer County, Kentucky

Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

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