Sgt. William Frederick Hall

Parents: Frederic J. Hall & Dalla S. Grey-Hall

    - parents divorced 

    - moved to California with his father and brother

Hometown: Watsonville, California

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Air Base

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

        - assigned to HQ Company 

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:

    - 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

    - Japan

        - Hirohata Camp 1D

            - Work: Seitetsu Steel Mill

                   - POWs worked on docks and in steel mill

Hell Ship:

    - Taga Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 20 September 1943

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - Unknown

        - Sailed: Unknown

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 5 October 1943

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 2 April 1946

Died: 24 July 1997 - California

Buried:

    - Mausoleum - Pajaro Valley Memorial Park - Watsonville, California 

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