Pvt. Carl Duane Stuller

Home: Walton, Pennsylvania

Residence: Wooster Avenue - Akron, Ohio

Occupation: Press Operator - machine shop

Inducted:

    - 27 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio

         - U. S. Army

Training: 

    Fort Knox, Kentucky

    Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 

                -  Agloloma and Anyasas Rivers Area

                    - tanks sent in attacked and disengaged Japanese

                    - according to Capt. Alvin Poweleit, the battalion's surgeon, the tanks

                      did a great deal of damage to Japanese troops  

            - Battle of Tuol Pocket - 23 January - 17 February 1942

                - Japanese trapped behind Filipino-American lines

                - B Company & C Company tanks were sent into pocket to wipeout the resistance 

                - Filipino soldiers rode on tanks and dropped grenades into Japanese foxholes

                - tanks also would park with one track over foxhole and spin by applying power to

                  one of the tank's tracks

            - Note: The tankers would strip their uniforms of anything indicating they were

                         members of the tank battalions after the surrender because the Japanese

                         wanted to seek revenge against them

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
            - 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

        - Bilibid Prison

    Japan: 

        - Fukuoka #17

            Work: coal mining

Hell Ship: 

     - Canadian Inventor

        - Sailed: Manila - 4 July 1944

            - returned to Manila on July 5th with boiler problems

         - remained at Manila for 11 days

        - Sailed: 16 July 1944

            - ship had additional boiler problems 

            - left behind by convoy 

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 23 July 1944 

            - salt loaded into holds 

        - Sailed: 4 August 1944 

        - Arrived: Kellung, Formosa - 5 August 1944

            - additional boiler repairs made over 12 days

        - Sailed: 17 August 1944

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 1 September 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Promoted: Staff Sergeant

Discharged: 22 March 1946

Married: Mildred Luttrell

    - 15 December 1945  

Occupation: farmer - Wisconsin

Died:

    - 7 November 1991 - Tampa, Florida

Buried:

    - Florida National Cemetery - Bushnell, Florida

        - Plot:  112   Site:  2811 

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