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Pvt. Leonard Marvin Adams |
| Born: 7 August
1919 - Montague, Texas
Parents: Mr. & Mrs. D. W. Adams, Sr. Brothers: D. W., Jr. & Fred Hometown: Anadarko, Oklahoma Education: Fairview School, Anadarko, Oklahoma Residence: Rt. 3, Box 229, Port Cob, Oklahoma Inducted: - U. S. Army - 20 March 1941 - Oklahoma City Training: - Fort Knox, Kentucky - Camp Polk, Louisiana Units: - 753rd Tank Battalion - 192nd Tank Battalion Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands Engagements: - Battle of Bataan Prisoner of War: 9 April 1942 - Death March POW Camps: Philippine Islands: - Camp O'Donnell - Cabanatuan #1 - Exited: 27 October 1942 Las Pinas - Work: built runways Davao, Mindanao - 27 October 1942 - 6 June 1944 Bilibid Prison Japan: - Osaka #17-D - 4 September 1944 - 25 May 1945 - Work: Sulphuric 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 Rank: Discharged as Corporal Married: Dorothy Jean Home: Southlake, Texas Died: 9 September 1997 - Dallas, Texas Buried: Sam Houston National Cemetery - Houston, Texas |
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