Pvt. Miles Elmer Weech

Hometown: Gooding, Idaho

Parents: Joseph W. Weech & Hester J. Miller-Weech

Siblings: 5 brothers, 2 sisters

    - two of his brothers died as children 

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army 

        - 19 March 1941 - Salt Lake City, Utah

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units: 

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    Philippine Islands

Engagements

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

        - tank hit by enemy fire and knocked out

Wounded: 

    - shot in stomach by sniper after he left tank - 3 February 1942

Died: 

    - Hospital #1, Bataan, Philippine Islands

        - 5 February 1942 from wounds

Buried:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

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