Capt. John Scott Muir

Parents: Walter & Pam Muir

Siblings: 1 sister

Home: Brainerd, Minnesota

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 1941 - Brainerd, Minnesorta

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

        - Executive Officer 

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

           - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan
           - POWs run past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
           - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
               - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar
                   - those who died remain standing
           - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of 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

    - Japan

        - Tanagawa

        - Zentsuji

        - Rokuroshi

Hell Ship:

    - Nagato Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 6 November 1942

        - Arrived: Formosa - 8 November 1942

        - Sailed: Unknown

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 24 November 1942

Liberated: 7 September 1945

Resided: Nevada City, California

Died: 1962 - Nevada City, California

Note: The photo at the top of the page was taken while Capt. John S. Muir was a POW

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