Pvt. Elmore Walter Pattison

Parents: Walter C. Pattison & Mada M. Kuhn-Pattison

Siblings: 2 sisters, 4 brothers

Hometown: 74 Trellis Way - Sylvania, Ohio

    - 1940 - living with aunt and uncle in Cleveland Heights, Ohio 

Education: left high school after two years

Occupation: restaurant cook

Inducted:  

    - U.S. Army

        - 28 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio

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:

    - Fort Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

            - B Company's tanks guarded one of the few beaches, on the East Coast of Bataan, where the

              Japanese could land troops.  One night, they were involved in a firefight with Japanese landing barges.

              When morning came, not one Japanese soldier had been landed.

        - Battle of the Points - 27 January 1942 - 13 February 1942

            -  Agloloma and Anyasas Rivers Area

            - tanks sent in attacked and disengaged Japanese

            - according to Capt. Alvin Poweleit, the battalion's surgeon, the tanks

              did a great deal of damage 

         - Battle of Tuol Pocket - 23 January - 17 February 1942

            - Japanese trapped behind Filipino-American lines

            - B Company & C Company tanks were sent into pocket to wipeout the

               resistance 

            - Filipino soldiers rode on tanks and dropped grenades into Japanese

              foxholes

            - tanks also would park with one track over foxhole and spin by applying

              power to one track

                - tank spun and its stationary track burrowed into ground 

Prisoner of War:

    - 6 May 1942

       - Escaped to Corregidor

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Cabanatuan

    - Japan: 

        - Fukuoka #17

            - Work: coal mining

Hell Ship: 

    - Clyde Maru  

        - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Promoted: Private First Class

Discharged: 4 March 1946

Note:  Elmore's brother, Herbert, who was in the Navy, lost his life on 13 August 1943 in the Pacific Theater

Reenlisted:

   - served in Korea

       - wounded 

   - Retired - 31 January 1952 

Died: 25 May 1955 - Florida

Buried: Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery - Sylvania, Ohio

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