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Home State
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Year of Birth
1921 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
CWO3 Manuel (Manny) Vizinho
to remember
Marine Cpl Ernest D Atchison.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town
Snyder |
Last Address
General Delivery
Snyder, OK
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Casualty Date
Dec 01, 1942 |
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Cause
Hostile, Died |
Reason
Illness, Disease |
Location
Philippines |
Conflict
Not Specified |
Location of Interment
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Honolulu, Hawaii |
Wall/Plot Coordinates
Section Q Site 299 |
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Last Known Activity
He was stationed in Cavite, PI as a member of the First Separate Marine Battalion in Battery B, an anti-aircraft battery. In Oct. 1941 Admiral Hart CnC Asiatic fleet, ordered the Marines to set up AA batteries at selected points around the Navy yard in case of attack. Battery B set up their guns about one mile west of the Navy yard near a small barrio named Caradad. When the Japanese bombed the Navy yard these guns (Battery B) were destroyed. The men then rejoined the Marines at the barracks to be evacuated to Marivales where they were incorporated into the Fourth Regiment as K Company of Marines and assigned to beach defense at Corregidor. Ernest was captured May 6, 1942 when Corregidor fell to the Japanese. Ernest Atchison, of Snyder, Oklahoma died in a Japanese prison camp in Mukden, Manchuria, Dec. 1942. He was in U S Marines, stationed at Cavite Navy Yard in Manila, Philippines when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. He was captured on Corregidor, taken to Cabanatuan POW camp on Bataan. After surviving the odeal in that camp, he was taken on one of the 'hell ships' to be a slave laborer at Mukden (also called Hoten). He survived less than a month after arriving in Mukden.
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Comments/Citation
Service number 275139
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