S/Sgt. Donald Barden

Home: Richmond County, Georgia

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 24 July 1940 - Fort Benning, Georgia

Training: 

    - Fort Benning, Georgia

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

        - Attached to 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

        -  the night of 8 April 1942 - escaped by boat to Corregidor

    - Battle of Corregidor

Prisoner of War:

    - 6 May 1942 

POW Camps:

    - Cabanatuan

    - Lipa, Batangas 

        - POWs built runways and revetments with picks and shovels 

Hell Ship: 

    Arisan Maru - 10 October 1944 - 24 October, 1944

Died: 24 October 1944

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