PFC. Frank J. Burns

Hometown: Bakersfield, California

Inducted: U. S. Army 

    - 12 April 1941 - Los Angeles, California

Training: 

   - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon 

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - 100 POWs packed into each car
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell   

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate  

        - Cabanatuan #1

            - Exited: 27 October 1942

        - Davao, Mindanao

            - returned to Cabanatuan

        - Nielson Airfield

            - POWs built runways

        - Bilibid Prison

    Japan: 

        - Nagoya #5B - 4 September 1944 - 25 May 1945

            - Work: Sulfuric Acid Manufacturing

        - Nagoya #7B - 28 May 1945

            - Work: copper mine

Hell Ships:

    - Erie Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 28 October 1942

            - Note: Ship stopped: Iloilo and Cebu City

        - Arrived: Lasang, Mindanao - 7 November 1942

        - Unknown Hell Ship

            -returned to Manila

    - Canadian Inventor

        - Sailed: Manila - 4 July 1944

            - After one day at sea, the ship returned to Manila with boiler problems.

            - ship stayed in port for 11 days 

        - Sailed: 16 July 1944

            - additional boiler problems - left behind by convoy  

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 23 July 1944

        - Sailed: 4 August 1944

            - made way up west coast of Formosa

        - Arrived: Keelung, Formosa - 5 August 1944

            - stayed in port for 12 days for more boiler repairs

        - Sailed: 17 August 1944

            - By the time the ship reached the Ryuku Islands, north of Formosa, it was having additional

              boiler problems.

        - Arrived: Naha, Okinawa - unknown

            - ship stayed in port for 6 days

        - Arrived: Moji - 1 September 1944

Liberated: 5 September 1945

Reenlisted:

    - U.S. Air Force

    - 12 April 1946 

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