Capt. Ferris Grable Spoor

Parents: Albamarle Spoor & Martha Frances Grable-Spoor

Siblings: 4 sisters, 1 brother

Hometown: Crawford, Missouri

Married: Leona Linville

Children: 2 daughters, 1 son

Occupation: Teacher

Residence: 1909 South Doniphan Avenue - Saint Joseph, Missouri

Enlisted: Missouri National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941 - Saint Joseph, Missouri

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

        - Motorcycle Reconnaissance Officer

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

           - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan
           - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
           - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
               - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar
                   - those who died remain standing
           - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of 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 spigot 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

Discharged: 14 January 1947

Died: 8 July 1982 - Riggs, Missouri

            - while boating

Buried:

    - Leavenworth National Cemetery - Leavenworth, Kansas

        - Plot: 0   Grave: 741

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