Pvt. Peter Henry Tschudi Jr.

Parents: Peter H. Tschudi Sr. & Millie Tschudi

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 5 March 1941

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - 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 

        - Cabanatuan #1

        - Lipa, Batangas 

            - POWs built runways 

    Formosa:

        - Inrin Temporary

            - 11 November 1944 - 14 January 1945

    Japan: 

        - Sendai #7

            - Work: POWs worked in copper mine

        -Ashio #8D

            - Work: POWs worked in copper mine

Hell Ships:

    - Hokusen Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

        - Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

        - Sailed: Hong Kong

        - Arrived: Formosa - 11 November 1944

    - Melbourne Maru

        - Sailed: Formosa - 14 January 1945

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan  - 23 January 1945

Liberated: September 1945

Died:

    - 17 June 1967 - Louisville, Kentucky

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