Editors Note: This year, we will be making a special effort to remember each and every known member of the 192nd Tank Battalion. As part of that remembrance, we will list each day the members who were killed or died on that date, along with links for additional information as available. We look forward to your comments.

March 29, 1943

Cpl Laprade D. Brown (B)

Cpl. Brown

Cpl. Brown

Cpl. Brown survived the Death March, the Capas Boxcars, and work details. He died of TB in the Bilibid prison hospital on this date in 1943. After his death, Brown’s mother requested the return of his ashes. He is buried in Chicago, Illinois.

Death March Marker KM102 - Co. B and Cpl. Laprade Brown.

Death March Marker KM102 – Co. B and Cpl. Laprade Brown.

Laprade’s family paid for a Death March marker that stands proudly outside the San Fernando Train Station where the death marchers were forced into overloaded box cars for the final leg of the Death March to Cabanatuan.

Learn more about Cpl. Brown here: http://bataanproject.com/Brown_L.html

March 29, 1990

Pvt. Merle Lloyd Miller (C)

Pvt. Miller POW photo

Pvt. Miller

Pvt. Miller survived the Death March, the Capas Boxcars, POW camps, a hell ship voyage and slave labor in Tokyo, Japan. He died in Guymon, Oklahoma on this date in 1990.

Learn more about Pvt. Miller here: http://bataanproject.com/Miller_M.html