Pvt. Rudolph O. Bolstad

Parents: Ole E. Bolstad & Ida Aasen-Bolstad

Siblings: 3 sisters, 3 brothers

Home: Mary Township, Norman County, Minnesota

Occupation: farmer

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 1941 - Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana 

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March 

Guerilla:

    - escaped on Death March

        - Pampanga, Philippine Islands

        - member of "Lapham's Raiders" 

             - promoted to corporal 

    - September 1944

        - Luzon, Philippine Islands

     - Evacuated to Australia:

         - 2 September 1944 - U.S.S. Narwhal - submarine

         - others evacuated with him: Capt. Wilbur Lage, Lt. Charles L. Naylor, and

           Sgt. Wilbur Jellison  - most likely these men were ill or wounded

Promoted: Sergeant

Died:

    - 2 September 1946 - Chicago, Illinois*

        - Note:  The date of birth does not match, but the Rudolph Bolstad listed on

                     death certificate was from Norman County, Minnesota

Buried:

     - Concordia Lutheran Cemetery - Hendrum, Minnesota

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