Pvt. Wallace Herman Coats

Hometown: Ryan, Oklahoma

Inducted: U. S. Army 

    24 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

    Japan: 

        Fukuoka Camp #1-D

Hell Ship: 

    Canadian Inventor

        Sailed: 4 July 1944

             - returned to Manila for boiler repairs

        Sailed: 16 July 1944

        Arrived: 23 July 1944 - Takao, Formosa

        Sailed: 4 August 1944

        Arrived: 5 August 1944 - Keelung, Formosa

            - ship stayed for 12 days

        Sailed: 17 August 1944

        Arrived: Unknown - Naha, Okinawa 

            - stayed six days - boiler repairs

        Sailed: Unknown

        Arrived:  1 September 1944 - Moji, Japan

            - POW disembarked - 2 September 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Resident: Lived in the State of Washington 

Died: 23 April 1989

Buried: Ryan Cemetery - Ryan, Oklahoma

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