Pvt. J. C. Garrett

Parents: Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Garrett

Home: Texas

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army 

Training: 

    - Fort Benning, Georgia

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

    - 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 spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan

    - Japan: 

        - Fukuoka #17

            - Work: coal mining

Hell Ship: Clyde Maru

    - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

    - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Married

    - 2 daughters, 1 son 

Died: 18 April 1970 - Panola, Texas

Buried:

    - Odd Fellows Cemetery - Carthage, Texas

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