Yankey

Born: 3 January 1914 - Boyle County, Kentucky
Home: Perryville , Kentucky
- living with grandmother
Occupation: Farmhand

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

- 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

- Formosa:

- Karenko

- Shirakawa

- Japan

- Unknown

- Manchuria:

- Hoten Camp

- Work: machine shop & lumber mill

Hell Ship:

- Nagara Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 12 August 1942

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 14 August 1942

- Suzuku Maru

- Sailed: Takao, Formosa - 16 August 1942

- Arrived: Keelung, Formosa - 17 August 1942

- Oryoku Maru

- Sailed: Keelung, Fomosa - 24 October 1944

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 27 October 1944

- Interisland steamers

- POWs taken from Japan to Pusan, Korea on a series of island ferries

Liberated: September 1945 - Russians

Married: Annie Roney

Died: 28 May 1967

Buried: Perryville Cemetery - Perryville, Kentucky