Capt. Lyman Edward Johnson

Parents: G. L. Johnson & Frances Heatherington-Johnson

Siblings: 1 sister

Hometown: Salinas, California

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941 - Salinas, California

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

           - 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

    - Japan

        - Zentsuji Camp

            - POWs worked as stevedores

                - Sakaide Rail Yards

                - Port of Takamatsu

        - Rokuroshi Camp

             - transferred there: 25 June 1945

             - POWs farmed to support camp

Hell Ship:

    - Nagato Maru

        - Boarded: 6 November 1942

        - Sailed: Manila - 11 November 1942

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 14 November 1942

        - Sailed: 18 November 1942

        - Arrived: Pescadores Islands - 18 November 1942

        - Sailed: 18 November 1942

        - Arrived: Keelung, Formosa - 18 November 1942

        - Sailed: 20 November 1942

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 24 November 1942

Liberated:

    - 8 September 1945

Lived: Salinas, California

    - retired from military as a colonel 

Died: 10 September 1994 - Salinas, California

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