Pfc. Erick Eugene Theodore Hoglund

Parents: Erick A. Hoglund & Johanna M. Hagbloom-Hoglund

Siblings: 3 sisters, 2 brothers

Hometown: Aurora, Minnesota

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 4 April 1941 - Fort Snelling, Minnesota

            - Note: Middle Name: Eugene - on military records

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 at the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                    - 100 POWs put into each car
                    - dead remained standing
            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead fell to floor
            - POWs walked the 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

    - Japan

        - Fukuoka #17

            - POWs worked in condemned coal mine

Hell Ship:

    - Clyde Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Liberated:

    - 2 September 1945

Discharged: 3 May 1946

Married: 12 August 1948 - Lasetta O. Felt

Children: 2 daughters, 1 son

Died:

    - 3 September 1977 - Cass Lake, Minnesota

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