Stuller

Born: 3 February 1918

Home: Walton, Pennsylvania

Residence: Summit County, Ohio

Inducted:

- 27 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio

- U. S. Army

Training:

Fort Knox, Kentucky

Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands

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

Cabanatuan #1

Bilibid Prison

Japan:

Fukuoka #17

Work: coal mining

Hell Ship:

Canadian Inventor

- Sailed: Manila - 4 July 1944

- returned to Manila on July 5th with boiler problems

- remained at Manila for 11 days

- Sailed: 16 July 1944

- ship had additional boiler problems

- left behind by convoy

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 23 July 1944

- salt loaded inot holds

- Sailed: 4 August 1944

- Arrived:Kellung, Formosa - 5 August 1944

- additonal boiler repairs made over 12 days

- Sailed: 17 August 1944

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 1 September 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Promoted: Staff Sergeant

Discharged: 22 March 1946

Married: Mildred Luttrell

- 15 December 1945

Occupation: farmer - Wisconsin

Died:

- 7 November 1991 - Tampa, Florida

Buried:

- Florida National Cemetery - Bushnell, Florida

- Plot: 112 Site: 2811