Tec 4 Frank Lester Beaver

Parents: Frank C. Beaver & Stella M. Clingon-Beaver

Siblings: 3 sisters, 4 brothers

Home: Houston, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 1 February 1941 - Ft. Hayes - Columbus

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 

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march from southern tip of Bataan

               - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

               - American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

            - San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

               - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

               -  Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

               - POWs who died remained standing

            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor

            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino Army training camp 

            - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

            - one water spigot for the entire camp

            - as many as fifty POWs died each day 

            - POWs went out on work details to get out of camp 

        - Cabanatuan

    Japan:

        - Fukuoka #4

        - Moji Military Hospital

Hell Ship:

        - Nissyo Maru

            - Sailed: 17 July 1944 - Las Pinas 

            - Arrived: 27 July 1944 - Takao, Formosa

            - Sailed: 28 July 1944 - Takao, Formosa

            - Arrived:  3 August 1944 - Moji, Japan

Died: 28 March 1945 - pneumonia

Cremated: ashes originally given to camp commadant

Buried:

    - October 1948

        - Forest Hill Cemetery - Piqua, Ohio 

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