Pvt. Earl Harrison Wheeler

Parents: A. Louis & Mabel Wheeler

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Raised: Illinois/Texas

    - during the 1920s his family moved to Rio Hondo, Texas

Home: Nueces County, Texas

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

        - 21 March 1941 - Fort Sam Houston

Training:

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

       - Death March

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan

Japan:

    Fukuoka  #17

Hell Ship: 

    - Oryoku Maru

        - Sailed: 13 December 1944

        - Sunk: 15 December 1944 - Subic Bay

    - Enoura Maru

        - Sailed: 27 December 1944

        - Sunk: 6 January 1945 - Takao Harbor - Formosa

    - Brazil Maru

        - Sailed: 13 January 1945 - Takao, Formosa

        - Arrived: 30 January 1945 - Moji, Japan 

Liberated: September 1945

Promoted: Corporal

Discharged: 21 July 1946

Married: Mary Weber - 1949

Died: 31 March 1993 - Abilene, Texas

Buried: Elmwood Memorial Park, Abilene, Texas

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