Pvt. Robert J. Ryan

    - grew up in Marshfield, Wisconsin

Parents: Michael J. & Marie Ryan

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Hometown: 641 Ninth Street, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 7 April 1941 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

       - Death March

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Baguio - sent to Cabanatuan - October 1944

        - Cabanatuan

    - Japan

        - Fukuoka #3

        - Fukuoka #22 

    - Korea:

        - Jinsen Camp - Seoul, Korea

Hell Ship: 

    - Oryoku Maru

        - Sailed: 13 December 1944

        - Sunk: 15 December 1944 - Subic Bay

    - Enoura Maru

        - Sailed: 27 December 1944

        - Arrived: 31 December 1944 - Takao, Formosa

        - Sunk:  9 January 1945 - Takao

    - Brazil Maru

        - Sailed: 14 January 1945 - Takao, Formosa

        - Arrived: 30 January 1945 - Moji, Japan

    - Unknown Hell Ships

        - Sailed: 1945 - Moji, Japan 

        - Arrived: 1945 - Korea 

            - Japanese sent POWs to Korea who were scheduled to go there when they boarded the Oryoku Maru 

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 30 May 1946

Employment: Wood County, Wisconsin Recorder of Deeds

    -elected six months after being discharged

Died: 23 August 1987

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