Miller

Born: 5 June 1922 - Santa Clara County, California

Parents: Martin Miller & Lora Johnson-Miller

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Hometown: Monterey, California

Home: PO Box 1111 - Salinas, California

Inducted: 10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Airfield

Training:

- Fort Lewis, Washington

Units:

- 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:

- 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

Died:

- 8 October 1942 - malaria, dysentery & malnutrition

- Approximate time of death: 1:00 A.M.

Buried:

- Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands