Capt. Fred Charles Moffitt

Parents: William Moffitt & Jennie McKinney-Moffitt

Siblings: 1 brother

Hometown: Salinas, California

Married: 11 March 1933 - Manie Rose Fail

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 10 February 1941
Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

        - Commanding Officer - C 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

        - Davao, Mindanao

            - POWs built runways

        - Bilibid Prison

        - Cabanatuan 

Liberated:

    - 30 Janaury 1945

        - U. S. Army Rangers 

Residence: Salinas, California

Died: 15 December 1969 - Salinas, California

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