Pvt. Peter Henry Tschudi

Parents: Peter C. Tschudi & Millie Tessman-Tschudi

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 5 March 1941

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs started march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

        - Lipa, Batangas 

            - POWs built runways 

    - Formosa:

        - Inrin Temporary

            - 11 November 1944 - 14 January 1945

    - Japan:

        - Sendai #7

            - Work: POWs worked in copper mine

        - Ashio #8D

            - Work: POWs worked in copper mine

Hell Ships:

    - Hokusen Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

        - Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

        - Sailed: Hong Kong

        - Arrived: Formosa - 11 November 1944

        Note: Peter had been scheduled to sail on Arisan Maru. The Japanese switched

                   POW detachments since the Hokusen Maru was ready to sail and not all the

                   POWs had arrived.  The Arisan Maru was sunk by an American submarine.

                   All but nine of the 1803 POWs on the ship died.

    - Melbourne Maru

        - Sailed: Formosa - 14 January 1945

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan  - 23 January 1945

Liberated: September 1945

Married: Ella Lacefield

Children: 1 daughter, 1 son

Died:

    - 17 June 1967 - Louisville, Kentucky

Buried:

    - Saint Stephen's Cemetery - Louisville, Kentucky 

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