Cpl. Frank I. Muther

Parents: Josef Muther & Frieda Wifli-Muther

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 step-brother

Home: Monterey Road - Alisal, California

Education:

    - Blanco School

    - Salinas High School

    - Hartnell College

Enlisted: California National Guard

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        -  10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Air Base

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

        - Radio Operator

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Fort Stotsenburg, 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

            - escaped for two days; recaptured at hospital in Manila 

POW Camps:

    - Philippines:

        - 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   

        - Bridge Detail

        - Cabanatuan #1

            - POWs sent to Manila - 18 September 1943 

    - Japan:

        - Hirohata 12-B

            - Work: Seitetsu Steel Mills    

                - POWs worked as stevedores

                - POWs also cleaned ovens and slag

Hell Ship:

     - Coral Maru

        - Note: Ship was also known as the Taga Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 20 September 1943

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 5 October 1943

 Liberated:

    September 1945

Married: Edna

Children:

    - 2 daughters

    - 1 son

Occupation: Dairy Farmer

Died: 1 June 2006 - Salinas, California

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