Pvt. Leonard Marvin Adams

Parents: Dan W. Adams Sr. & Rosa Adams

Brothers: 4 brothers, 3 sisters

Nickname:  "Bud"

Home: Rt. 3, Box 229, Port Cobb, Oklahoma

Education: Fairview School, Anadarko, Oklahoma

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

        - 20 March 1941 - Oklahoma City

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units: 

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

        - assigned to battalion after completing basic training 

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

        - volunteered to replace a National Guardsman from federal service

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

            - Exited: 27 October 1942

        - Las Pinas

            - Work: POWs built runways with picks and shovels

        - Davao, Mindanao - 27 October 1942 - 6 June 1944

        - Bilibid Prison

    Japan: 

       - Naygoya #5-B - 4 September 1944 - 25 May 1945

                - Work: Sulfuric Acid Manufacturing

       - Nagoya #7-B - 28 May 1945

                - Work: copper mine

Hell Ships:

    - Erie Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 28 October 1942

            Note: Ship stopped: Iloilo and Cebu City

        - Arrived: Lasang, Mindanao - 7 November 1942

    - Yashu Maru

        - Sailed: Lasang, Mindanao - 12 June 1944

        - Arrived: Cebu City - 17 June 1944

    - Teiryu Maru

        - Sailed: Cebu City - 21 June 1944

        - Arrived: Manila - 24 June 1944

    - Canadian Inventor

        - Sailed: Manila - 4 July 1944

            Note: Ship stopped at Takao and Keelung, Formosa

                       Naha, Okinawa

        - Arrived: Moji - 1 September 1944

Liberated: 5 September 1945

Promoted: Corporal

Discharged: 29 December 1946

Married: 7 August 1970 - Dorothy Jean Reading

Home: Southlake, Texas

Died:

    - 9 September 1997 - Veterans Administration Hospital - Dallas, Texas

Buried:

    - Sam Houston National Cemetery - Houston, Texas 

        - Section:  L   Grave:  1305 

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