Likens

Born: 15 May 1917 - Iowa

Parents: William H. Likens & Pearl M. Turner-Likens

Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers

Home: 18th Street Road, Kosmosdale, Kentucky

- this was a company town owned by cement company

Employed:

- Kosmos Portland Cement Company

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 1 March 1941 - Louisville, Kentucky

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Stationed:

- Fort Stotsenburg

- At Clark Airfield when Japan bombed it - 8 December 1941

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

- D Company tanks went north to Lingayen Gulf, in support of B Company,

where Japanese were landing troops - 21 December 1941

- fought in battle at Agno River - 24 December 1941

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

- major tank battle near the Bagac Road

- Battle of Corregidor

- 9 April 1942 - 6 May 1942

- when ordered to surrender, he swam to Corregidor

- Fort Drum

- assigned to fort after escaping Bataan

POW:

- 6 May 1942

- sent out on work detail to Marinduque

- appears POWs rebuilt WaWa Dam on Boac River

- detail ended 18 May 1942

Camps:

- Philippine Islands:

- Bilibid Prison

- arrived - 18 May 1942

- Cabanatuan

- arrived - 26 May 1942

- departed - 18 September 1942

- returned to Bilibid Prison

- taken to Port Area of Manila

- Formosa:

- Taichu Camp - two months in camp

- Japan:

- Tokyo #1D

- Omori Headquarters Camp

- Work: stevedore - Yokohama Ship Yard

Hell Ships:

- Lima Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 20 September 1942

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa - September 1942

- Sailed: Dai Nichi Maru - 13 November 1942

- Arrived: Yokohama, Japan - 28 November 1942

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 3 May 1946

Died: 12 December 1996 - West Point, Kentucky

Buried:

- Bethany Memorial Cemetery - Louisville, Kentucky