harlow

Born: 5 March 1919 - Mackville, Kentucky

Enlisted: Kentucky National Guard

Parents: James & Ida Harlow

Siblings: 5 brothers

Home: English Avenue - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Occupation: Farmer

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 25 November 1940 - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

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 started 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 #1

- Japan

- Hirohata or Naruo Camp

- Nagoya #9

Work: stevedores docks

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 22 January 1946

Married: Loith Gifford

Occupation: sheet metal worker

Hometown: Owenton, Kentucky

Died: 12 May 1984 - Frankfort, Kentucky