Miller

Born: 7 August 1919 - Texas County, Oklahoma

Parents: John Miller & Living Sellars-Miller

Hometown: Adams, Oklahoma

Inducted:

- U. S. Army - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

- 24 March 1941

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

- Agloloma and Anyasas Rivers Area

- 2 February 1942 - 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 #1

- Clark Field

- built runways

- Bilibid Prison

Hell Ship:

Noto Maru -

Sailed: Manila - 27 August 1944

Note: Ship stopped at Takao and Keelung, Formosa

Arrived: Moji - 4 September 1944

Japan: Tokyo #21-D - Nomachi

Work: Magnesium mining and smelting

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 9 June 1946

Married: Wilma Sellers

Died: 29 March 1990 - Guymon, Oklahoma