Miller

Born: September 1919 - Mansfield, Ohio

Parents: George & Marie Miller

- he was the couple's only child

Hometown: Mansfield, Ohio

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 27 January 1941 - Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

Training:

- Ft. Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Battle of Bataan

POW:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

- Mariveles - POWs start march at 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

Philippines:

- Camp O'Donnell

- unfinished Filipino Army training base

- 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 #1

- Bilibid Prison

Died: 17 November 1942 - inanition and malaria

Buried:

- American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

- Plot: F Row: 8 Grave: 86