Cpl. Milton Baker

Parents: Jacob & Dora Baker

Siblings: 2sisters, 1 brother

Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 1941

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

           - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan
           - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
           - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
               - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar
                   - those who died remained standing
           - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of 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

        - Davao, Mindanao

            - 27 October 1942 - POWs left Cabanatuan on detail  

            - 6 June 1944 - detail ended

            - POWs returned to Manila 

    - Japan

        - Nagoya #5B

            - POWs manufactured Sulfuric Acid

Hell Ships:

        - Interisland Steamer

            - Sailed: Manila - 1 July 1942

            - Arrived: Davao, Mindanao - 9 July 1942

        - Yashu Maru

            - Sailed: Lasang, Mindanao - 12 June 1944

            - Arrived: Cebu City, Cebu - 17 June 1944

        - Teiryu Maru

            - Sailed: Cebu City - 21 June 1944

            - Arrived: Manila - 24 June 1944

        - Canadian Inventor

            - Sailed: Manila - 4 July 1944

                - 1eturned to Manila with boiler problems

                - sailed again eleven days later

             - Sailed: 16 July 1944

                - left behind by convoy with more boiler problems

            - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 23 July 1944

                - salt loaded onto ship

            - Sailed: 4 August 1944

                - made its way up west coast of Formosa

            - Arrived: Keelung - 5 August 1944

                - stayed 12 days

            - Sailed: 17 August 1944

                - additional boiler problems by the time it reached Ryukyu Islands

                - stopped at Naha, Okinawa

             - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 1 September 1944

Liberated: 11 September 1945

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