Pvt. Francis Ignacius McGuire

Parents: Bartholomew O. McGuire & Mary Duffy-McGuire

Hometown: Tooele, Utah

Siblings: 1 brother, 1 sister

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 19 March 1941 - Utah

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units: 

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 3 February 1942 - Limay Area - wounded

             - Awarded: Purple Heart

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

        - Cabanatuan

        - Palawan Island

            - suffered from malaria

            - sent to Bilibid Prison - 22 August 1944 

        - Bilibid Prison

    - Formosa:

        - Heito Camp

            - Work: sugar cane processing

    - Japan: 

        - Funatsu Camp

            - Work: lead/zinc mining and refining

        - Nagoya #9

            - Work: stevedores dock work

Hell Ship: 

    - Hokusen Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

        - Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

            - remained at Hong Kong until - 21 October 1944

        - Sailed: Hong Kong - 21 October 1944

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 11 November 1944

            - POWs unloaded

Liberated: 6 September 1945

Hospitalized: Bushnell General Hospital - Brigham, Utah

Discharged: 27 November 1945

Died: 23 October 2001 - Grand Junction, Colorado