Pvt. Frank Tony Cabral Jr.

Home: Santa Cruz County, California

Enlisted: California National Guard

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Air Base

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Unit: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

   - Battle of Luzon

   - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start 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:

    - Philippines:

        - 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

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

        - Scrap Metal Detail

            - POWS tied vehicles together and drove them to San Fernanado

            - vehicles taken to Manila to be sent to Japan as scrap metal

            - Pampanga Provincial Hospital - malaria

            - taken from hospital by Japanese - 10 October 1942

        - Cabanatuan #1

    Japan: 

        - Hirohata

            - Work: 

                 - Seitetsu Steel Mill

                 - Stevedores - unloaded ore from ships

Hell Ship:

    - Coral Maru

        - Note: Ship also known as: Taga Maru

            - Sailed: Manila - 20 September 1943

            - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 24 September 1943

            - Sailed: 26 September 1943

            - Arrived: Moji< Japan - 5 October 1943

                 - Note: 70 POWs died during trip

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged:

    - 31 January 1951 

Married

Children: 2 sons

Second Marriage:

Children: 1 daughter

Residence: Watsonville, California

Died:

    - 28 December 1992 - Watsonville, California 

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