Groves

Born: 2 July 1920 - Kentucky

Home: Henderson County

Inducted: U. S. Army - 22 January 1941 - Louisville, Kentucky

Training:

Fort Knox, Kentucky

Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

Philippine Islands

Engagements:

Northern Luzon

Battle of Bataan

- transferred to 17th Ordnance

Prisoner of War:

9 April 1942

- Death March

           - Mariveles - POWs started 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

Bilibid Prison

Manchuria:

Tokyo 12-B

Work: stevedore

Hell Ship:

Nagato Maru

Sailed: Manila - 7 November 1942

Note: Ship stopped Formosa

Arrived: Moji - 25 November 1942

Liberated: 4 September 1945

Died: 2 March 2001 - Arcanum, Ohio

Note: James Groves may have transferred from 17th Ordnance to the 192nd Tank Battalion.