Nolan

Born: 3 September 1923 - Wisconsin
Parents: William Nolan & Margaret Vail-Nolan
    - mother died in 1930s
Siblings: 1 brother
Occupation: cabinet maker
Enlisted: Wisconsin National Guard
Inducted:
    - U.S. Army
        - 25 November 1940
Training:
    - Fort Knox, Kentucky
    - Camp Polk, Louisiana
        - took part in maneuvers in the late summer of 1940
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 the 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
        - Bilibid Prison
   - Japan
        - Osaka Main Camp
Liberated: September 1945
Military Career:
   - remained in military
   - Korean War
Discharged:
   - 30 April 1954
Reenlisted:
    - 25 May 1954
Retired:
   - 30 September 1961
   - Rank: Chief Warrant Officer
Married: Lillian
Children: 2 daughters
Residence: Wolcott, Connecticut
Died: 23 November 1989 - Spring Hill, Florida
Buried:
   - Florida National Cemetery - Bushnell, Florida
       - Section: 110   Site: 225