Person:Jackson Knight (3)

MILITARY: U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 November 19, 2005 11:01 AM Name: Jackson O Knight Birth Year: 1920 Race: White, citizen Nativity State or Country: California State: California County or City: Los Angeles Enlistment Date: 27 Feb 1941 Enlistment State: California Enlistment City: Fort Macarthur San Pedro Branch: Coast Artillery Corps Branch Code: Coast Artillery Corps or Army Mine Planter Service Grade: Private Grade Code: Private Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the Philippine Department Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men) Source: Civil Life Education: 4 years of high school Civil Occupation: Pipe Fitter or Steam Fitter* (Pipe fitter, railway. ) or Plumber* An asterisk (*) appearing after a job title indicates that a trade test for the particular occupation will be found in the United States Employment Service Manual, Oral Trade Test. Marital Status: Single, without dependents Height: 70 Weight: 148 Source Information: ational Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 [Archival Database]; World War II Army Enlistment Records; Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 64; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

THE U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION File Unit: World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 in the Series: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created 1942, documenting the period 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 - Record Group 389 Serial Number Name Jackson Oliver Knight Grade Code Private Service Code 1 Army Arm or Service Arm or Service Code Army Mine Planter Service - Coastal Artillery Corp Date Report: Day (DD) Date Report: Month (MM) Date Report: Year (Y) Racial Group Code 1 White State of Residence 91 California Type of Organization Parent Unit Number 544 Parent Unit Type Group/Regiment/Commands/System Area Southwest Pacific Theatre: Philippine Islands Latest Report Date Day (DD) Latest Report Date Month (MM) 12 Latest Report Date Year (Y) 2 1942 Source of Report Individual has been report by sources considered official Status Died as Prisoner of War, Not above Cases Detaining Power Japan Camp Hoten POW Camp (Mukden) Manchuria 42-123 Rep P.O.W. Transport Ships

BIOGRAPHY: Re: Shenyang and pictures please Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:23:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Ao Wang <aopatwa@yahoo.com>

 Dear Father Phillips,

 My name is Ao Wang and my organization is "Truth Council for WWII in Asia".  I met you many times during the last three or four ADBC's conferences.  I mentioned to you about visits to the Mukden Camp during a ride together to the airport.  We have had visits to the old Mukden camp sites since 2002.  Allen and Bob Rosendahl went back with my group in 2003. 

 We are seeing some fruits from those visits because the city is now agreed to have a Mukden Memorial Museum there and has been working day and night so that it will be ready for the 18th of August's dedication.  
 
 Please see the copied letter from Dr. Cynthia Caples of the US Consulate at Shenyang. Also please send pictures or stories directly to her if you have any. It will be displayed at the 918 Memorial at Shenyang now and moved to the Mukden Memorial when it is completed.

 The city of Shenyang has set the 18th of August as the day of dedication for the Mukden POW campsite which is getting a work over now. The old campsite will become a memorial museum for all POWs who were interned there. Janiece Cohn, whose father was interned at Mukden, will be there in August. 

 I am working now to get a group to go in September.  My organization has a fund raising memorial concert on September 18 and hopefully the proceeds can be divided evenly to help those who are going.

 Hope you can join us in September.  Please pass the words around and thanks.

 Take care and best wishes.

 Ao

   

From: Caples, Cynthia B Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:18 PM To: (Deleted) Subject: Need photographs of Camp Hoten and its inmates

  Dear veterans of Camp Hoten, and family members of veterans, 
  
  Do any of you have photographs of Camp Hoten and its inmates which you could transmit electronically to the U.S. Consulate in Shenyang, for potential use in a photo exhibit in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II?  The Shenyang Cultural Bureau has applied for permission to host a Thursday Aug. 18 memorial ceremony at the city's 9-18 Museum dedicated to the sufferings of Liaoning Province and the rest of Northeast China under Japanese occupation (the first shots were fired here on Sept. 18, 1931, hence the museum's name). Assuming official approval comes through, the American and Russian Consuls General will attend and give speeches about the American and Russian contributions to victory in the Pacific Theater of World War II.  The Russians say they are planning to mount an exhibit of about 40 photographs of their troops in Manchuria in August 1945. We would also like to mount some photographs of the American POWs who spent nearly three years in Camp Hoten in Mukden (the old name for Shenyang), but we don't have any.  Does anyone have any photographs they would be willing to let us use (duly credited) for this purpose?  
  
  Please let me know.

  --With best regards,

  Cynthia B. Caples
  Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate, Shenyang
  e-mail: caplesc@state.gov
  

 Camp Hoten No. 1 - unofficial rough-draft chronology
   
  11 Nov., 1942 - 1188 U.S. enlisted men (ordinary soldiers) and 14 officers arrive in Mukden (Shenyang) from Manila via Korean Peninsula as American POWs, sent to POW Camp Hoten No. 1, then a group of old Chinese Army earth huts half underground (an additional 60 English and 40 Australian and New Zealand troops have joined them, live in Barracks No. 13; there are eventually 19 barracks in all)
  
  March 1943 - burial of 176 POWs, most of whom died in the first 90 days at Camp Hoten; by summer 1943, a total of 205 have died, more than 17% of the American enlisted men in Camp Hoten
  
  July 1943 - the camp is moved to a new location, two-story brick structures c. four miles away, about half a mile from the Mitsubishi Ko-Kan Machine and Tool Factory, a former Ford Co. factory where some of the camp inmates work under Chinese supervision, disassembling machinery so that Japanese Technicians can make blueprints of it; camp inmates also work as farm and construction labor; new camp is an improvement on the old one, and rations are increased slightly, to above starvation level; at this point, 11 American and 2-3 British officers are still alive 
  
  June 1944 - c. 150 American POWs sent from Camp Hoten to Kamioka, Japan, to work in the lead mines there, as punishment for sabotaging work at the Mitsubishi Factory in Mukden (Linda Goetz Holmes, 'Unjust Enrichment')
 
  7 December 1944 - Allied B-29 air raids on Shenyang factories and rail lines drop two bombs within the Camp Hoten perimeter, killing 19 of the POWs, and injuring more than 30
  
  April 1945 - 316 senior officers, orderlies, and four civilians (mostly American, British, and Dutch generals and colonels; senior officer is U.S. Maj. Gen. George M. Parker, Jr.) are moved to Camp Hoten from Camp Chang Chia Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, highest-ranking American POW, and a few close aides and officers, is held elsewhere in Liaoning, at Si'an (Japanese: Seihan), along with Britain's highest-ranking POW, Gen. A. E. Percival, former commander of Singapore
  
  5 August 1945 - newly-appointed International Committee of the Red Cross head delegate to Tokyo Dr. Marcel Junod visits Mukden en route to Tokyo, first visit to Camp Hoten by an ICRC representative
  
  6 August 1945 - Dr. Junod visits Gen. Wainwright at Si'an 
  
  8 August 1945 - Russia enters the Pacific War
  
  17 August 1945 - four-man American OSS parachute group arrives in Shenyang
 
  18 August 1945 - low-flying Allied plane scatters leaflets announcing that Japan has surrendered
  
  20 August 1945 - advance Soviet tank units enter Shenyang
  
  9 September 1945 - American POWs leave Camp Hoten No. 1 to return home

CENSUS: 1930 United States Federal Census Name: Jackson Knight Home in 1930: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California Age: 9 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1921 Relation to Head of House: Son Father's Name: Beach T Mother's Name: Mabel L Occupation: Household Members: Name Age Beach T Knight 38 Mabel L Knight 39 Curtis G Knight 16 Louise L Knight 13 Jackson Knight 9 Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California; Roll: 169; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 1254; Image: 494.0.

BIRTH: California Birth Index, 1905-1995 Name: Jackson O Knight Birth Date: 22 May 1920 Gender: Male Mother's Maiden Name: Rogers Birth County: Los Angeles Source Citation: Birthdate: 22 May 1920; Birth County: Los Angeles. Source Information: Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations