ErringtonJ

Born: 27 August 1918 - Compton, California

- family also resided in San Antonio, California

Parents: John Errington & Jenny Alice Thomas-Errington

Siblings: 2 sisters, 5 brothers

- His brother, Richard, was also in the California National Guard

Hometown:

- Salinas, California

Inducted:

- 10 February 1941

- Salinas Army Arifield

Training:

- Fort Lewis, Washington

- Fort Stotsenburg, 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

- Port Area Detail - Manila

- Japan

- Fukuoka #23 - arrived 5 August 1944

- Work: coal mine

Hell Ship:

- Nissyo Maru

- Sailed: 17 July 1944 - Manila

- Arrived: 27 July 1944 -Takao, Formosa

- Sailed: 28 July 1944 - Takao, Formosa

- Arrived: 3 August 1944 - Moji, Japan

Note: Ship survived attack by American submarine wolf-pack

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 25 May 1946

Married:

Children: 3 daughters, 6 sons

Died: 23 January 2001 - Mariposa, California