Cpl. Edward Patrick Serpell

Parents: Jane & John Serpell

Sibling: 1 brother

Hometown: Lexington, Kentucky

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 6 March 1941 - Louisville

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

        - Louisiana Maneuvers

Overseas Duty: 

     - Philippine Islands

        - transferred to Hedquarters Detachment, Provisional Tank Group 

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

    - Japan: 

        - Hirohata #12-B

            - Slave Labor: Seitetsu Steel Mills

                - Work: laborers, stevedores

Hell Ship:

    - Coral Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 20 September 1943

            - Note: Ship stopped at Takao, Formosa

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 5 October 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Dicharged: 20 October 1945

Died:

    - 14 November 1985 

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