Pvt. Lloyd James Richter

Parents: Edward & Rose Richter

Hometown: Janesville, Wisconsin

Enlisted: Wisconsin National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940 - Janesville 

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

            - shot in thigh with a pistol by guard

            - Japanese medic removed bullet at San Fernando

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

          - Camp O'Donnell

          - Cabanatuan #1

          - Manila Detail

              - POWs drove trucks

                    - Lloyd is not in January 1943 photo of the detail - may have become ill and sent to Bilibid

          - Nichols Field

              - POWs built runway by hand

                  - lived in Pasay School

          - Bilibid Prison

    - Japan:

          Osaka Camp #3-B - Oeyama

              Work: labor - nickel refinery

Hell Ship:   

    - Nissyo Maru  

         - POWs boarded 14 July 1944

         - Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

         - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 27 July 1944

         - Sailed: Takao - 28 July 1944

         - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 6 August 1944

Liberated: 2 September 1945

Dicharged: 18 May 1946

Married: Mary B. Turner - 25 April 1956

Children: 1 son, 1 daughter

Lived: Belvedere, Illinois

Died: 26 June 1985 - North Chicago, Illinois

    - Veterans Administration Hospital

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