Born: 1920 - Wisconsin Mother: Jeanette Fancher Hometown:  Janesville, Wisconsin Enlisted:  Wisconsin National Guard     - joined the National Guard with his best friend, Laurence Grim Inducted:     - U.S. Army         - 25 November 1940 Training:     - Fort Knox, Kentucky     - Camp Polk, Louisiana         - battalion took part in the Louisiana maneuvers of 1941 Overseas Duty:     - Ft. Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands Engagements:     - Battle of Luzon     - Battle of Bataan Prisoner of War:     - 9 April 1942         - Death March             - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan             - POWs ran past Japanese 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:     - Camp O'Donnell             - unfinished Filipino training base             - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp             - only one water spigot for entire camp             - as many as 50 POWs died each day Died:  23 May 1942 - dysentery Buried:     - Camp O'Donnell Cemetery Reburied:     - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands         - Plot:  L   Row: 11   Grave:  108