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Joseph W. Beard |
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Born: 1917 - Massachusetts Family: One of seven children Home: - 121 West Fourth Street - Port Clinton, Ohio - at 13 he was living with his grandparents Education: Port Clinton High School - 1938 Occupation: Hotel Bookkeeper Enlisted: Ohio National Guard - 1938 Inducted: - U.S. Army - 25 November 1940 Training: - Fort Knox, Kentucky - Camp Polk Louisana - maneuvers Overseas Duty: - Philippine Islands Stationed: - Ft. Stotsenburg - lived through Japanese attack on airfield - 8 December 1941 - attack took place ten hours after Pearl Harbor Engagements: - Battle of Luzon - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 - Battle of Bataan - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 - wounded - 2 February 1942 - Awarded: Purple Heart Prisoner of War - 9 April 1942 - Bataan Death March - POWs start march at Mariveles at the southern tip of Bataan - POWs run past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor - American artillery returned fire - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars - each boxcar could hold forty men of eight horses - 100 POWs packed into each car - POWs who died remained standing - Beard reported missing at San Fernando - 1 June 1942 - apparently selected for a work detail while on march - not known when and how he arrived at Fort Stotsenburg Died: - 14 June 1942 - dysentery Memorial: - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands |
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