Sallee

Born: 14 June 1920 - Mercer County, Kentucky

Parents: Hez Sallee & Sally Cunningham-Sallee

Siblings:4 brothers, 1 sister

Enlisted: Kentucky National Guard

Inducted: U. S. Army - 25 November 1940

Nickname: Heze

Brother: James - HQ Company

Hometown: Harrodsburg

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

Japan:

Fukuoka #17

Work: coal mining

Hell Ship:

Clyde Maru -

- Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Died: 6 June 1944 - fractured skull - coal mine accident

Note: Sgt. Heze F. Sallee's grave erroneously shows him as a member of the 194th Tank Battalion. Although

D company fought with the 194th, the company was never transferred to the battalion and had been

returned to the command of the 192nd before the surrender..