Richeson

Born: 7 March 1917 - Ohio
Parents: Lewis U. Richeson & Libbie Richeson
- father was 43 years older than Forrest's mother
- died while Forrest was an infant
Siblings: 3 sisters

Home: 327 West Main Street, Barnesville, Ohio

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 21 January 1941 - Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

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 start 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

- Bilibid Prison

- Port Area Detail

- POWs loaded and unloaded ships

- Not known when he was sent on detail

- remained behind after most POWs had been sent to Japan

Japan:

- Sendai Camp #6

- Work: copper mining

Hell Ship:

- Noto Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 27 August 1944

- Note: ship stopped at Takao and Keelung, Formosa

- Arrived: Moji - 4 September 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 8 May 1946

Wife: Evelyn

Died: 14 September 1975 - Dayton, Ohio

Buried:

- Dayton National Cemetery - Dayton, Ohio

- Section: 17 Row: 9 Site: 11