Pvt. Charles Harold Steel

Home: McCurtain County

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

        - 21 March 1941 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan #1

     - Japan: 

        Fukuoka #17

         - Work: Coal Mining

Hell Ship: 

   - Clyde Maru - 

      - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

      - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 13 January 1946

Wife: Lorene

Died: 2 May 2000 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Buried:

    - Sunny Lane Cemetery - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 

       -  Section:  5  

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