JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
Birth4 Aug 1920, Crete, Saline, NE
Death21 Nov 1972, Ridgecrest, CA94
Burial27 Nov 1972, Willamette National Cem, Portland, OR
FatherRodney Knox Johnson M.D. (1886-1972)
MotherMary Louise Crowe (1890-1988)
Spouses
Family ID42
Marriage10 Apr 1946, Kansas City, Kansas
Notes for Donald Frederick (Duke) Johnson
SSN-429-74-4606. SSA shows a death month of Nov. 1972 and the SSN was issued in Arkansas.
Donald left for Camp Stoneman, Calif., after visiting his mother and other relatives. He informed The Sentinel that he was being prepared for overseas duty. From The Friend Sentinel, May 7 1936.
Sgt. 1st Class, RA 6930933. Lived in Olympia, WA, 1957. Lived in Sparks, Nevada in 1963.
Donald was on the Friend track team in 1936. From The Friend Sentinel, Apr 23, 1936.
He was a prisoner of war with the Japanese in WWII and spent 42 months in prison camps.
Duke died from heart problems.
Career US Army. Enlisted in the the Field Artillery with the regular army when he was 18 and served in Hawaii, Australia and Java outside the continental United States. He was in Java with the 26th Field Artillery Brigade and the 131st Field Artillery in 1942 shortly after Pearl Harbor. In June 1942 the War Department informed his parents that he was missing in action.
He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. In WWII he spent 42 months(1942-1945) in Singapore and Burma as a Japanese prisoner of war. He was stationed on the western end of Java at the time of the island's surrender to the Japanese on March 8,1942. The island fell shortly after the Battle of the Java Sea in which the American Cruiser Houston was lost. He was declared missing in action in June 1942. He was sent to a prison camp in Batavia, then to a camp in Changi on Singapore Island, and then to Burma (primarily in the area between Bangkok and Moulmein), where he was forced to work on the Burma-Thailand railroad under Japanese guards. Twenty-five to twenty-eight percent of the prisoners died through sickness, starvation and overwork. A POW card came from Duke through the Imperial Japanese Army in early 1945. This was the first indication his family had that he was still alive. However, they always believed he was alive and never lost hope. At that time he was at War Prisoner's Camp #3, Nike, Thailand. It was located approximately 135 miles southeast of Moulmein, Burma, and approximately 70 miles northeast of Tavoi, Thailand. Most of the prisoners came from the 131st Field Artillery and the Cruiser Houston. He was liberated in Bangkok, Thailand by American troops on 30 Aug 1945 and evacuated to a hospital in Calcutta, India.
During the Korean War he was serving with the 7th Military Police Company, 7th Infantry Division in January 1953. He described the battle line at that time as steady but with patrols and small attacks with some casualties. He was working road patrol and moving infantry up to the line
Donald left for Camp Stoneman, Calif., after visiting his mother and other relatives. He informed The Sentinel that he was being prepared for overseas duty. From The Friend Sentinel, May 7 1936.
Sgt. 1st Class, RA 6930933. Lived in Olympia, WA, 1957. Lived in Sparks, Nevada in 1963.
Donald was on the Friend track team in 1936. From The Friend Sentinel, Apr 23, 1936.
He was a prisoner of war with the Japanese in WWII and spent 42 months in prison camps.
Duke died from heart problems.
Career US Army. Enlisted in the the Field Artillery with the regular army when he was 18 and served in Hawaii, Australia and Java outside the continental United States. He was in Java with the 26th Field Artillery Brigade and the 131st Field Artillery in 1942 shortly after Pearl Harbor. In June 1942 the War Department informed his parents that he was missing in action.
He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. In WWII he spent 42 months(1942-1945) in Singapore and Burma as a Japanese prisoner of war. He was stationed on the western end of Java at the time of the island's surrender to the Japanese on March 8,1942. The island fell shortly after the Battle of the Java Sea in which the American Cruiser Houston was lost. He was declared missing in action in June 1942. He was sent to a prison camp in Batavia, then to a camp in Changi on Singapore Island, and then to Burma (primarily in the area between Bangkok and Moulmein), where he was forced to work on the Burma-Thailand railroad under Japanese guards. Twenty-five to twenty-eight percent of the prisoners died through sickness, starvation and overwork. A POW card came from Duke through the Imperial Japanese Army in early 1945. This was the first indication his family had that he was still alive. However, they always believed he was alive and never lost hope. At that time he was at War Prisoner's Camp #3, Nike, Thailand. It was located approximately 135 miles southeast of Moulmein, Burma, and approximately 70 miles northeast of Tavoi, Thailand. Most of the prisoners came from the 131st Field Artillery and the Cruiser Houston. He was liberated in Bangkok, Thailand by American troops on 30 Aug 1945 and evacuated to a hospital in Calcutta, India.
During the Korean War he was serving with the 7th Military Police Company, 7th Infantry Division in January 1953. He described the battle line at that time as steady but with patrols and small attacks with some casualties. He was working road patrol and moving infantry up to the line