Son of Charlie Clay and Gracie Mills. Brother to Nettie Mills Pace. Step-Mother: Vivial Louise Lambright Mills Jennings. Half-Brother to Billie Jean Mills Bramblett, Mary Ethel Mills Young, Tommy Clay Mills and Jeanette Mills Holtzclaw.
PFC 60 Coast Arty - WWII
While my Uncle Lester and several hundred other Americans were Prisoners-of-War of the Japanese in Mukden, Manchuria. During the march from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando, 55 miles away, 76,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were bound, beaten, or killed by their Japanese captors. Some were bayoneted when they fell from exhaustion. Some were forced to dig their own graves and were buried alive. Only 56,000 prisoners reached camp alive. Thousands of them later died from malnutrition and disease.
Some time later after the notification of Uncle Lester's death, his step-mother received a letter from a woman who lived in the Philippines. Her letter stated that Uncle Lester and one other POW escaped the wrath of the Death March and she hid them. She also stated that while my uncle did not die in the death march, he did die of dysentery.
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PFC 60 Coast Arty - WWII
While my Uncle Lester and several hundred other Americans were Prisoners-of-War of the Japanese in Mukden, Manchuria. During the march from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando, 55 miles away, 76,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were bound, beaten, or killed by their Japanese captors. Some were bayoneted when they fell from exhaustion. Some were forced to dig their own graves and were buried alive. Only 56,000 prisoners reached camp alive. Thousands of them later died from malnutrition and disease.
Some time later after the notification of Uncle Lester's death, his step-mother received a letter from a woman who lived in the Philippines. Her letter stated that Uncle Lester and one other POW escaped the wrath of the Death March and she hid them. She also stated that while my uncle did not die in the death march, he did die of dysentery.
Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/8967/index.html
Son of Charlie Clay and Gracie Mills. Brother to Nettie Mills Pace. Step-Mother: Vivial Louise Lambright Mills Jennings. Half-Brother to Billie Jean Mills Bramblett, Mary Ethel Mills Young, Tommy Clay Mills and Jeanette Mills Holtzclaw.
PFC 60 Coast Arty - WWII
While my Uncle Lester and several hundred other Americans were Prisoners-of-War of the Japanese in Mukden, Manchuria. During the march from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando, 55 miles away, 76,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were bound, beaten, or killed by their Japanese captors. Some were bayoneted when they fell from exhaustion. Some were forced to dig their own graves and were buried alive. Only 56,000 prisoners reached camp alive. Thousands of them later died from malnutrition and disease.
Some time later after the notification of Uncle Lester's death, his step-mother received a letter from a woman who lived in the Philippines. Her letter stated that Uncle Lester and one other POW escaped the wrath of the Death March and she hid them. She also stated that while my uncle did not die in the death march, he did die of dysentery.
Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/8967/index.html
PFC 60 Coast Arty - WWII
While my Uncle Lester and several hundred other Americans were Prisoners-of-War of the Japanese in Mukden, Manchuria. During the march from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando, 55 miles away, 76,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were bound, beaten, or killed by their Japanese captors. Some were bayoneted when they fell from exhaustion. Some were forced to dig their own graves and were buried alive. Only 56,000 prisoners reached camp alive. Thousands of them later died from malnutrition and disease.
Some time later after the notification of Uncle Lester's death, his step-mother received a letter from a woman who lived in the Philippines. Her letter stated that Uncle Lester and one other POW escaped the wrath of the Death March and she hid them. She also stated that while my uncle did not die in the death march, he did die of dysentery.
Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/8967/index.html
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