Parents: Anton & Victoria Moczarny

    - father died during 1920s 

Siblings: 2 sisters, 7 brothers

Hometown: Armstrong Creek, Wisconsin

    - at some point Joseph Moczarny moved to Chicago

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

       - 13 April 1941 - Chicago, Illinois

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Unit:

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

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 Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

               - American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

            - San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul

              sugarcane

               - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

               -  Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

               - POWs who died remained standing

            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor

            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino Army training base 

            - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

            - one water spigot for the entire camp

            - as many as fifty POWs died each day 

            - POWs went out on work details to get out of camp 

        - Cabanatuan

    Japan:

        - Tanagawa - 27 November 1942

              Work: built dry dock

Hell Ship: Nagato Maru

    Sailed: Manila - 7 November 1942

    Arrived: Formosa - Unknown

    Sailed: Formosa - Unknown

    Arrived: Moji - 24 November 42

Died: Tanagawa - 4 October 1943 - dysentery & malnutrition

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  B   Row:  15  Grave:  115