Boone

Born: 19 November 1916 - Kentucky

Hometown: Leitchfield, Kentucky

Parents: Frank Boone & Mary Anna Lush-Boone

Siblings: 3 sisters, 2 brothers

Occupation: worked on family farm

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 22 January 1941 - Louisville

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- assigned to D Company

- 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

- 8 April 1942 - night before Bataan surrendered - escaped to Corregidor

Prisoner of War:

- 6 May 1942

- Corregidor surrenders

POW Camps:

- Philippine Islands:

- Cabanatuan

- Lipa, Batangas

- POWs built runways and revetments with picks and shovels

- Formosa:

- Inrin Temporary Camp

- Japan:

- Sendai #7

- Work: copper mine

- Aisho Camp

- Work: copper mine

- Note: POWs wore straw shoes - when wet, the POWs feet froze or got frostbite.

Hell Ships:

- Hokusen Maru

- Boarded: 1 October 1944

- Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

- Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

- Sailed: Hong Kong - 21 October 1944

- Arrived: Formosa - 11 November 1944

- Melbourne Maru

- Sailed: Formosa - 14 January 1945

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 23 January 1945

Liberated: September 1945

Wife: Anna Louise Boone

Home: Patrick F. Boone resided the rest of his life in Leitchfield, Kentucky.

Died: 29 December 2011

Buried:

- Saint Elizabeth's Cemetery - Clarkson, Kentucky