Pfc. Eugene Richard Barnes

Parents: Tillie B. Thomas

    - Note: Mother married James Vazquez

Hometown: Salinas, California

Nickname: Stink

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 10 February 1941

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanesee 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

        - Las Pinas Detail - 12 December 1942

            - POWs built runways

        - Cabanatuan

        - Bilibid Prison 

    - Japan

        - Fukuoka #4B

           - arrived in camp - 4 January 1945

           - most likely from Oeyama POW Camp

           - POWs worked in coal mine

Hell Ship:

    - Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 27 July 1944

        - Sailed: 28 July 1944

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944

Liberated:

    - September 1945

Promoted: Staff Sergeant

Married: Johnnie Lou Reynolds

Children: 1 son

Died:

    - 10 November 1954 - polio

Buried: Salinas, California

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