Cpl. Arnold S. Johnson

Born: 18 February 1915 Parents: Unknown Home: Wyoming Inducted:     - U.S. Army         - Unknown Training:     - Fort Lewis, Washington Unit:     - 194th 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             - 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 fall 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 spigot for entire camp             - as many as 50 POWs die each day             - Japanese open new POW camp to lower death rate         - Cabanatuan     - Japan         - Fukuoka #23             - camp opened: 4 August 1944             - POWs worked in coal mine Hell Ship:     - Nissyo Maru         - Sailed: Manila - 14 July 1944         - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 17 July 1944         - Sailed: Takao - 28 July 1944         - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944 Liberated:     - September 1945 Married: Patricia Children: 3 daughters Residence:     - Roslyn, North Dakota Died:     - November 1976

 

 

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