Frederick G. Collins Jr.

Corporal Collins' remains have been recovered and accounted for. On December 8, 1941, CPL Collins was a member of 253rd Quartermaster Co., Quartermaster Corps located at Nichols Field at Manila, The Philippines, when hostile Japanese forces sent the QMC on a gradual withdrawal into the Bataan Province. Following the April 9, 1942 surrender to the Japanese, CPL Collins and other members of the QMC captured by the Japanese began the torturous 65-mile "Bataan Death March" northward, where they were imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell. Because of overcrowding and excessive death rate at Camp O'Donnell, these POW's were transferred to Camp Cabanatuan. On Nov. 19, 1942 Americans, including CPL Collins, were reported to have died and buried by their fellow prisoners at Common Grave 717 at Cabanatuan Camp #3 Cemetery. In August 2014, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains of an Unknown Soldier buried in Plot N Row 14 Grave 78 at Manila American Cemetery with the belief that an identification could be made. DNA analysis and historical evidence were used to positively identify the remains as belonging to Cpl. Frederick G. Collins, Jr. His name remains permanently inscribed on the Walls of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery.