Ferguson

Born: 25 November 1918 - New York
Parents: Herman & Sarah Ferguson
Siblings: 3 sisters, 2 brothers

Inducted: 28 March 1941 - Jamaica, New York

Home: 3522 East 34th Street - New York, New York

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

- 753rd Tank Battalion

- 192nd Tank Battalion

- replaced a National Guardsman released from federal service

Overseas Duty:

- Ft. Stotsenburg - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

POW:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

- Mariveles

- POWs started march at southern tip of Bataan

- ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

- American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

- San Fernando

- POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

- each car could hold 40 men or eight horses

- Japanese packed 100 POWs into each car

- those who died remained standing

- Capas

- POWs left boxcars

- those who died fall to the floors of the cars

- POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

Camps:

- Philippine Islands:

- Camp O'Donnell

- unfinished Filipino Army Training Base

- Japanese put base into use as POW camp

- one water spigot for the entire camp

- as many as 50 POWs died each day

- Cabanatuan #1

- Japanese opened camp in an attempt to lower death rate among POWs

- "healthy" POWs transferred there

- Port Area Detail - Manila

- Work: Stevedore - Pier 7

- 13 June 1942 - 14 July 1944

Japan:

- Kamioka POW Camp

- Work: lead & zinc mining

Hell Ship:

Nissyo Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 27 July 1944

- Sailed: Takao - 28 July 1944

- Arrived: Moji - 3 August 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Died:

- 11 February 1990