Pvt. George W. Logan

Parents: George & Effie Logan

Siblings: 1 sister

Home: Dayton, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 24 March 1941 - Fort Thomas, Newport, Kentucky

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

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:

          - Niigata Camp #5

             - Work: stevedore

Hell Ship: Coral Maru

        Sailed: Manila - 20 September 1943

        Arrived: Takao, Formosa

        Sailed: Unknown

        Arrived: Moji, Japan - 5 October 1943

    Liberated: 5 September 1945

Promoted: Private First Class

Discharged: 19 September 1947

Died: 6 June 1983

Buried:

    - Dayton National Cemetery - Dayton, Ohio

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