Born:  17 November 1917 - Bear Creek, Wisconsin

Parents: Rosmer & Lydia Dery

Siblings: 1 sister

Home: 974 Jackson Street, Janesville, Wisconsin

    - rented a room

Occupation: radio repair

Enlisted:  Wisconsin National Guard

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - November 25, 1940 - Janesville, Wisconsin

Training:  

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

        - radio operator

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:  

    Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon  

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:  

    - April 9, 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 

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

       - 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

Died: 

    - 15 July 1942 - dysentery

        - Approximate time of death - 2:00 AM

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands