Miklo

Born: 15 February 1917 - Port Clinton, Ohio

Mother: Andrew Miklo & Lena Cipka-Miklo

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 25 November 1940 - Port Clinton, Ohio

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Battle of Bataan

- Battle of the Pockets

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

Camps:

- 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

- Davao, Mindano - 27 October 1942 - 6 June 1944

- Bilibid - June 1944 - December 1944

Work Detail:

- Bridge Building Detail -April 1942 - September 1942

- John assigned to Manila where he drove a supply truck

Hell Ship:

- Oryoku Maru

- Boarded: 13 December 1944

-1619 POWs boarded onto ship

- Sailed: 14 December 1944

- ship attacked by American planes

- attack continued the next day

- Sunk: 15 December 1944

- Japanese abandoned ship

- planes stop attack when they saw the large number of men climbing out of the ship's

holds

- Japanese fire at POWs as they swam ashore

Died: 15 December 1944

- sinking of Oryoku Maru - Subic Bay, Philippine Islands

Memorial:

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