Horttor

Born: 1922

Parents: Ben & Pearl Horttor

Hometown: Jacksonville, Texas

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 17 March 1941 - Dallas, Texas

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- 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 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

- Japan:

- Sakurajima Camp

- Camp Bombed: 17 May 1945

- POWs transferred: 18 May 1945

- Akenobe Camp

- Work: Coaled ships

Hell Ship:

- Coral Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 20 Sept. 1943

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa

- Sailed: Takao

- Arrived: Moji, Japan

Liberated: September 1945

Died: 11 June 1964 - Bexar County, Texas