Covyeow

Born: 15 October 1913 - Minnesota

Father: John Covyeow

- mother died when he was child

Step-parents: Herman & Louise Mielitz

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Home: 1522 Hillside Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 1941 - Fort Snelling - Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

          - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar
                    - those who died remain standing
            - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of 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

-Formosa

- Inrin Temporary

- Japan

- Sendai #7

- POWs worked in copper mine owned by Kajima Corporation

Hell Ship:

- Hokusen Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

- Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944
- While in harbor, the ship was attacked several times by American planes.

- Sailed: 24 October 1944

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 11 November 1944

- Melbourne Maru

- Sailed: Takao, Formosa - 14 January 1945

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 23 January 1945

Liberated:

- September 1945

Promoted: Staff Sergeant

Discharged: 9 May 1946

Residence: Louisville, Kentucky

Married:

Children: 2 daughters, 1 son

Died: 14 March 1985 - Louisville, Kentucky