Pvt. Norman A. Paul

Parents: Robert & Mary Paul

Siblings: 5 brothers

Occupation: trucker

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 7 April 1941 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

        - took part in maneuvers of 1941 

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

            - 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: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - 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
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan

        - Port Area Detail - Manila

    - Japan: 

        - Nagoya #7-B

            - Work: zinc & lead mining

Hell Ship: 

    - Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 6 July 1944

        - Arrived: Takao Formosa

        - Sailed: Takao

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944

Died: 24 July 1945 - chronic bronchitis

    - Remains cremated and given to camp commandant 

Buried:

    - Ft. Snelling National Cemetery - Minneapolis, Minnesota

        - Section: C-25   Site: 14284 

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