Pvt. Cecil Walter Kitchens

Mother: Clide & Lona Kitchens

Home: 404 North State Street, Weatherford, Oklahoma

Nickname: "Kitch"

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 24 March 1941 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Training:

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Training:

    - Motorcycle Messenger

Units:

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Clark Field

    - Lingayen Gulf

    - Gumain River

    - Tuol Pocket - Bataan

Prisoner of War:

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

POW Camps:

    Philippine Islands

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan

        - Port Area Detail

        - Bilibid

Liberated:

    - 4 February 1945

Married:  Mary Lou

Children: 1 son (known)

Died:

    - 18 November 1967

Buried:

    -  Sayre-Doxey Cemetery - Sayre, Oklahoma

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