Pvt. Ralph Leroy Boyle

Parents: Ralph P. Boyle & Helen M. Dennis-Boyle

Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers

Hometown: Warren, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 28 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Job: Tank Mechanic

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 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: 

     - Philippine Islands: 

         - 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
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

         - Cabanatuan #1

         - Clark Airfield

            - POWs built runways

Hell Ship:

    - Noto Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 25 August 1944

            - Ship stop at Takao and Keelung, Formosa

        - Arrived: Moji - 4 September 1944

     - Japan: 

         - Shinjuku Camp #1

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 5 March 1947

Married: Esther Cameron

Children: 1 daughter, 1 son

Died:

    - 16 November 1987 - Howland, Ohio

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