Born: 20 August 1917 - Cook County, Illinois

Parents: Andrew & Tille Jendrysik

    - Polish immigrants

        - father died when he was thirteen

        - mother died when he was fourteen

Siblings: 2 brothers

    - brothers raised him

Home: 5343 South New England Avenue - Chicago, Illinois

Enlisted: Illinois National Guard

    - enlisted with his best friend, Nick Fryzuik 

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army 

        - 25 November 1940

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

         - Ft. Stotsenburg

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

    - 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

POW Camps:

    - 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

Died: 31 August 1942 - dysentery

Buried: American Military Cemetery - Manila