Tec 4 Frederick Krug

Born: 25 April 1917 - Wisconsin
Parents: Louis & Ella Krug
Siblings: 1 sister
Nickname: "Fred"
Home:  419 South Franklin Street - Janesville, Wisconsin
    - later lived at: 52 North Franklin Street
Married: Mildred Krug
    - 2525 W. Jefferson, St., Louisville, Kentucky
Enlisted:  Wisconsin National Guard
Inducted:
    - U.S. Army
        - 25 November 1940
Training:
    - Fort Knox, Kentucky
    - Camp Polk, Louisiana
        - 192nd took part in Louisiana Maneuvers in the late summer of 1941
Overseas Duty:
    - Fort Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands
Engagements:
    - Battle of Luzon
    - Battle of Bataan
Prisoner of War:
    - Death March
                - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
                - POWs ran past Japanese 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:
    - 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
    - Cabanatuan
        - camp opened to lower death rate among POWs
Died:
    - 8 July 1942 - diphtheria & dysentery
        - Approximate time of death - 3:00 PM
Buried:
    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery
Reburied:
    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands
        - Buried with other POWs in a grave marked "Unknown" at the cemetery

 

 

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