Pvt. William M. Mullins

Hometown: Patriot, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 28 January 1941 - Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanesee 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 spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

         - Cabanatuan

     - Japan: 

         -Kamioka Camp

             - Work: Zinc and lead mining - Magnesium smelting

Hell Ship: 

    - Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - Unknown

        - Arrived: Moji - 3 August 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 18 November 1946

Lived: Fairfield, Ohio

Married

    - widower 

Died: 16 January 1979 - Springfield, Ohio

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