Born: 1 July 1918 - Mercer County, Kentucky

Parents: Charlie & Filora Million

Siblings: 3 brothers, 3 sisters

Enlisted: Kentucky National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

        - member of tank crew with Marcus Lawson and L. T. Nix

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon 

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs started 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 #1

        - Lipa, Batangas

             - Work: POWs built runways with picks and shovels

        - Palawan Island

Died: 

    14 December 44 - burnt to death - Palawan Island

Buried: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri