Cpl. Noel Marvin Ravneberg

Born: 19 November 1916 - Devils Lake, North Dakota Parents: Lloyd A. & Martha Ravneberg Siblings: 1 brother Hometwon: Devils Lake, North Dakota Inducted:     - U. S. Army         - March 1941 Training:     - Fort Lewis, Washington         - motorcycle messanger Units:     - 194th Tank Battalion Overseas Duty:     - Philippine Islands Engagements:     - Battle of Luzon     - Battle of Bataan         - halftrack driver         - had three halftracks shot out from under him 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:     - Philippines         - 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         - Clark Airfield             - POWs built revenments and runways with picks and shovels     - Formosa         - Karenko         - Heito             - worked in quarry         - Oka             - during time as POW he suffered from malaria & amoebic dysentery             - beaten on several occasions         - Taihoku Hell Ship:     - Nagara Maru         - Sailed: Manila - 12 August 42         - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 14 August 1942     - Otaro Maru         - Sailed: Takao - 14 August 42         - Arrived: Karenko, Formosa - 15 August 1942 Liberated: September 1945     - weighed: 85 pounds         - could barely walk     - weighed: 175 pounds when he was inducted Discharged: 26 May 1946     - spent eight months in hospital Training     - Bulova Watch Company School - New York, New York Education:     - Columbia University  - geology         - attended night school - B.S. - February 1953         - earned M.S. - June 1954 Occupation: Geologist Married:     - August 1950 - Dorothy     - second wife: Evangeline Residence:     - moved to Washington D.C. Area     - lived in Gaithersburg, Maryland and later Williamsburg, Virginia Medals:     - received Purple Heart - 9 April 2002 Died:     - 19 May 2002         - congestive heart failure Buried:     - Saint Martin's Episcopal Church Memorial, James County, Virginia

 

 

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