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Yuzan Maru POW roster

This roster contains the name of the six Americans sent from Manila to Formosa aboard Yuzan Maru, on 19 Dec 1942.  They arrived at the Karenko POW camp on 23 Dec 1942 where they joined the high ranking American and British officers already at the camp.  
The roster was recreated by James Erickson using records of POWs imprisoned on Taiwan obtained from the US National Archives (Record Group 407, Box 122) by Roger Mansell, and from the Col. Edmund J. Lilly POW papers held at the US Army Combined Arms Research Library ( http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/archival/lilly/ejlinv.asp ).   Belatedly, I discovered the same names were published in William Braly's 1947 book, "The Hard Way Home."

The file is in delimited format, divided by semicolons.  The "to Japan" column indicates the means by which the POW was later sent to Japan from Formosa.

Name;Rank;Svc #;Branch;position or subsidiary unit;Primary unit;Parent unit;Taiwan POW #;to Japan;final camp;death;notes

Stevens Luther R;BG;O&232434;USA;CG;91st Div (PA);;2941;Oct 44 by Air;Mukden;;

Horan John P;Col;O&005520;INF;CO;21st Inf Regt (PA);21st Div (PA);2942;Oct 44 Oryoku Maru;Mukden;;

Mitchell Eugene H;Col;O&007463;INF;CO;61st Inf Regt (PA);Mindanao Force;2943;Oct 44 Oryoku Maru;Mukden;;

Tarkenton Hiram W;Col;O&010618;FA;CO;61st FA Regt (PA);Mindanao Force;2944;Oct 44 Oryoku Maru;Mukden;;

Stille Albert W;Sgt;19050447;AC;30th Bomb Sqdn;19th Bomb Gp (H);V Bomb Cmd;2945;;Heito;18-Dec-44;

Longmire Richard L;Sgt;20918677;INF;Med Det;194th Tank Bn;Prov Tank Gp;2946;Oct 1944 Oryoku Maru;Mukden;x;attached Bataan Hosp #2 16 Feb 1942

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