Cpl. Jimmy William Vaughn Jr.

Parents: Jimmy W. Vaughn Sr. & Olga Weddle-Vaughn

Stepfather: Arch B. Weddel

Siblings: 2 half-brothers, 2 half-sisters

Home: 1811 East Broadway Avenue - Fort Worth, Texas

Occupation: landscaper

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 20 March 1941 - Dallas, Texas

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

        - volunteered to replace a National Guardsman released from federal service 

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

       - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan

        - Bachrach Garage Detail

            - POWs repaired trucks  

        - Bilibid Prison

    - Japan: 

        - Hanawa Camp

            - Work: Copper Mine

Hell Ship: 

      - Noto Maru

          - Departed: Manila, Philippine Islands - 14 August 1944

          - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 30 August 1944

          - Sailed: Takao - 31 August 1944

          - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 9 September 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 6 December 1946

Married: Clarkie P. Alexander

Child: 1 son

Died: 5 December 1983 - Mount Pleasant, Texas

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