Piccolo

Born: 23 December 1917 - Bronx, New York

Parents: Anthony & Kate Piccolo

Siblings: 4 sisters

Hometown: Bronx, New York

Inducted: 24 March 1941

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

- 753rd Tank Battalion

- 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Battle of Bataan

POW:

9 April 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

Camps:

Philippines:

- 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

Japan:

- Tokyo 13-D

- Omori Camp

Hell Ship:

- Unknown

Liberated: September 1945

Promoted: Sergeant

Discharged: 19 November 1946

Married: Catherine

Died: 6 February 2005