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Boyce W. Hyatt

3 Apr 1912 – 24 Mar 1984

Birth	3 Apr 1912
Death	24 Mar 1984
Cemetery	Moulton Cemetery Loup County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	JimO on 05 Jul 2020
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22263543

Bio

Boyce Hyatt was a member of Company A, 194th Tank Battalion. He was stationed in the Philippine Islands when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Ten hours later, he lived through the bombing of Clark Airfield. For four months, he fought, with the other soldiers on Bataan, to slow Japans conquest of the Philippines. Without food, without adequate supplies, and no hope of being relieved, he became a prisoner of War on April 9, 1942, when Bataan was surrendered to the Japanese. He took part in the death march from Mariveles to Capas. There, 100 pows were packed into small wooden boxcars that could hold 40 men or 8 horses. At San Fernando, the living left the boxcars and those who had died fell to the floor. As a pow, he was held at Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan in the Philippines. He was later transported to Japan and held in a camp there. He remained in the camp until liberated at the end of the war. After the war, he remained in the military and fought in Korea.

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Family

Parents

• John Henry Hyatt 1875–1955
• Mabel Winona Austin Hyatt 1883–1978

Siblings

• Dale Allen Hyatt 1903–1985
• Aldis M. Hyatt Stormberg 1904–1993
• Ivey Frances Hyatt Drake 1906–1991
• March "Bud" Hyatt 1908–1992
• Tena Pearl Hyatt Sanders 1910–1936
• Vernon Verrill Hyatt 1916–2005
• Stacy Cleo Hyatt 1919–1922
• Donald John Hyatt 1922–2005

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