Sgt James A. Russell 803rd Engineers (Avn)

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E-Mail from son: 21 April 2009 Next of kin: Wife Mrs. Rose Russell; 25-25 34th Ave. Astoria NY. My father and mother were married April 12, 1941. One year to the day after he was married he was several days into the Death March. Picture taken in 1945. Sgt James A. Russell, 803rd Engineers (Aviation) Company B, endured the Bataan Death March and survived the O'Donnell POW Camp. In June, 1942, he was moved to Cabanatuan. He, as part of a draft of 1000 POWS, was taken to Japan on the hell-ship Canadian Inventor, departing Manila on 4 July 1944. It made stops at two ports on Taiwan (Takao & Keelung), another stop at Naha on Okinawa, and finally arrived 1 Sept 1944 at the port of Moji. The Center For Research believes, but cannot currently prove with a movement rosters, that he was part of a small group (<100) first taken to Tanagawa POW camp some 20 miles southeast of Osaka. On an unknown date in March, 1945, he was placed in the Fukuoka #8 branch camp called Inatsuki .