Miller

Born: August 1918 - Brown County, Texas

Parents: Thomas Miller & Dollie Miller

Siblings: 3 brothers, 2 sisters

Nickname: "J.B."

Hometown: Brownwood, Texas

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 5 January 1941 - Torrent Airfield - Fort Worth, Texas

Training:

- Ft. Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

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 started 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

- POWs remaining in camp were considered "too ill" to be

sent to Japan

Liberated: 31 January 1945 - U.S. Rangers