Sgt. Charles C. Chop

Parents: Stanko C. Chop & Anka A. Strbrni-Chop

Siblings: 1 sister 7 brothers

Nickname: "Chuck"

Hometown: Conway, Pennsylvania

Enlisted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 27 July 1939

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

Units: 

    - Unknown 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

        - may have joined battalion as a replacement

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

POW Camps:

    - Philippine Islands:

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan #1       

    - Japan:

        - Osaka #14B

            - POWs worked for Sumitomo Metallic Industrial Company a steel manufacturing

              company

        - Osaka #19B

            - POWs used as slave labor in mines owned by Mitsubishi Copper Mining Company

Hell Ship:

    - Tottori Maru

            - 1961 POWs put on ship

            - 500 in front hold and 1461 in rear hold

            - 5 October 1942 – POWs left Cabanatuan for Manila

            -  housed in warehouse on Pier 7

            - 7 October 1942 – POWs boarded onto Tottori Maru

        - Sailed: Manila – 8 October 1942

            - Note:  9 October 1942 - American submarine fired two

                         torpedoes at ship

                         - ship passes a mine laid by an American submarine

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 12 October 1942

        - Sailed: 16 October 1942

                        -  returned to Takao

        - Sailed: 18 October 1942

        - Arrived: Pescadores Islands

            - anchored off the Pescadores Islands – same day

                        -  remained anchored for several days

            - two POWs died – buried at sea

        - Sailed: 27 October 1942

        - Arrived: Takao - 27 October 1942

            - 28 October 1942 – POWs taken ashore and bathed

        - Sailed: 30 October 1942

        - Arrived: 30 October 1942 - Makou, Pescadores Islands

        - Sailed:  31 October 1942

        - Arrived: Fusan, Korea - 7 November 1942

            - 8 November 1942 – some POWs disembarked ship

            - remainder of POWs sent to Japan

         - Sailed: 8 November 1942

         - Arrived: Moji & Osaka, Japan - 11 November 1942

- Liberated:

    - 10 September 1945

        - left camp before American forces arrived

Promoted: Staff Sergeant

Discharged: 10 May 1946
Married:

Children: 3 sons

Resided: Okinawa, Japan

Died: 21 January 1993 - Okinawa, Japan

Buried:

    - Quantico National Cemetery, Virginia

        - 9 February 1993

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