Pvt. Stanley Hardin Kyler

Mother: Mary Divin-Kyler

Enlisted:

    - Kentucky National Guard

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

        - 25 November 1940 - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1941

        - 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 #1

        - Bilibid Prison

    - Japan:

         - Fukuoka #17

Hell Ship: 

    - Clyde Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 4 September 1946

Married: Gathel Wells-Kyler

Hometown: Means, Kentucky

Died: 15 May 1992 - Mount Sterling, Kentucky

Buried: Powers Cemetery - Denniston, Kentucky

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