Sgt. Jennings Bryan Scanlon, Jr.

Parents: Jennings B. Scanlon, Sr. & Alma Crews-Scanlon

    - Father owned a general store in Harrodsburg

Enlisted: Kentucky National Guard

Inducted: U. S. Army - 25 November 1940

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands

Engagements: Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

   -  9 April 1941

        - Death March

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died: 8 June 1942 - dysentery

    - According to Jack Reed, Jennings could not eat the rice that made up the main part of

      the POWs diet - when he died he weighed only 80 pounds

    - Bland Moore and Earl Pratt found Jennings laying partially in the slit trench that served

      as a latrine.  They bathed him and brought it back to the barracks.  He died a few days

      later.

Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery - Harrodsburg, Kentucky - 28 October 1949

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