Name/Title
Harrodsburg Tankers: Morgan FrenchEntry/Object ID
2024.8.9Secondary Title
Morgan French was one of the original 66 Harrodsburg TankersDescription
Sgt. Morgan French was one of the original members of the Harrodsburg unit. His brother Edward was also a member. At Ft. Knox he became the crew chief of the maintenance section of company D. French escaped to Corregidor and Ft. Drum. He was taken prisoner on May 10th 1942. He was taken by boat to an area near Manila and eventually on to Bilibid Prison and Cabanatuan. He was put aboard the Hell Ship Nagato Maru for transport to Japan. He worked building a dry dock and later in a graphite mine and camps at Tanagawaand and Tsuruga where he worked as a stevedore. He saw the mushroom cloud at Nagasaki from where he was being held. He was officially liberated on September 10, 1945. He eventually returned to Harrodsburg after the war. He remained in the military working as an instructor at Fort Knox until his retirement. He now lives in Texas and is the last surviving Kentucky National Guardsman from Company D.Collection
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