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Born: 4 June 1913 - Zumbro, Wabasha County, Minnesota

Parents: George A. New & Hilda L. Waltman-New

Siblings: 3 brothers, 2 sisters

- one brother died as infant

Hometown:

- 904 South Third Street, La Crosse, Wisconsin

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 22 January 1941 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Tank Driver

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements

- Battle of Luzon:

- Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

- Mariveles - POWs began 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 #1

Died:

- 10 August 1942 - dysentery

- Approximate time of death - 1:00 PM

Buried:

- American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

- Plot: D Row: 12 Grave: 106