Cpl. Marvin Clemon Harris

Nickname: Butch

Parents: John & Anna Harris

Siblings: 2 sisters

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 March 1941 - Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

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 #1

        - Bilibid Prison

Hell Ship: 

    - Nagato Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 7 November 1942

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 14 November 1942

        - Sailed - 17 November 1942

        - Pescadores Islands - 17 November 1942 

        - Sailed: 18 November 1942 

        - Keelung, Formosa - 18 November 1942 

        - Sailed: 20 November 1942 

        - Arrived: Moji - 24 November 1942

    Japan: 

        - Tanagawa

            - Work: built dry-dock

        - Tokyo Camp #7-D

            - Work: cement factory and quarry

Liberated: 6 September 1945

Died: October 1954

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