Letter from Capt. Manny Lawton to his parents - Dec. 13, 1944

Item

Identifier

https://documentinghistory.clemson.edu/studentprojects/admin/item/313/

Title

Letter from Capt. Manny Lawton to his parents - Dec. 13, 1944

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Language

English

Source

Box 1, Folder 12, Mss 260, Manny Lawton Papers, Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, South Carolina.
http://media.clemson.edu/library/special_collections/findingaids/manuscripts/Mss260Lawton.pdf

Rights

In Copyright

Date

1944-12-13

Description

In this handwritten letter dated Dec. 13, 1944, Capt. Manny Lawton notifies his parents that he and his fellow POWs are being sent from Manila in the Philippines to an unknown location. He will make the long, harrowing journey to Japan in three successive voyages aboard unmarked "hell ships," which will be attacked by American planes. During these attacks, Clemson classmates Otis Morgan will be killed and Henry Leitner (whose address is on the envelope) mortally wounded. Lawton will arrive in Japan on Jan. 30, 1945.

Subject

World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Philippines
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Prisoners of war

Creator

Lawton, Manny, 1918-1986

Publisher

Clemson University

Relation

Captain Lawton is Jap prisoner
Annotated draft from "The Fall of Bataan" chapter in Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived
Annotated draft from "The Death March" chapter of Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived
Annotated draft from "Back to Cabanatuan" chapter in Manny Lawton's memoir Some Survived
Letter from Capt. Manny Lawton to his parents - Dec. 13, 1944

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Clemson Men in World War II

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Fighting Tigers

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