|
POW interviewee, MN home |
military
service, POW dates and primary locations |
Louis Bailen
St Paul, MN (b. Benoit, WI) |
Navy Cavite
Navy Base, Philippines (captured May 42 at Corregidor)
POW 5.42 ? 9.45
Corregidor, Palawan, hellship, Sendai
JAPAN |
Floyd Caverly
Hill City, MN |
Navy
crew member, submarine USS
Tang (sunk Oct 44)
POW 10.44 ? 9.45
Formosa, Camps Ofuna and Omori JAPAN |
William Connell
Edina, MN (b. Bakersfield, CA) |
Navy
SB2C Helldiver
pilot (shot down 4 Jul
44 at Chichi Jima)
POW 7.44 ? 9.45
Chichi Jima,
Camps Ofuna and Omori JAPAN |
Stan
Galbraith
Virginia, MN |
Army 131st
Field Artillery (captured Mar 42 on Java)
POW 3.42 ? 9.45
Java, Singapore,
Burma-Thailand Railroad laborer |
Alois Kopp
Minnetonka, MN (b. North Dakota) |
Navy
pharmacist's mate, USS Houston (sunk Mar 42)
POW 3.42 ? 9.45
Netherlands East Indies (Serang, Bicycle Camp, Changi jail), Burma-Thailand
railroad laborer, Saigon |
Harold Kurvers
+
St Paul, MN |
Army medic, 194th Tank Battalion
(captured Apr 42 at Bataan)
POW 4.42 ? 9.45
Bataan
March,
Camp
O?Donnell,
Cabanatuan, hellship, Fukuoka
JAPAN |
Alf
Larson
Duluth, MN |
Army 27th
Material Squadron (captured Apr 42 at Bataan)
POW 4.42 ? 9.45
Bataan
March,
Camp
O?Donnell,
Clark Field, hellship, Namachi
JAPAN |
Douglas MacArthur
Northfield, MN (b.
Ashland, WI) |
Army Quartermaster detail
(captured May 42 on Corregidor)
POW 5.42 ? 9.45
Corregidor, Cabanatuan, hellship, JAPAN |
Harry Magnuson
Minneapolis, MN |
Army
Air Corps B-29 side gunner, 20th Air
Force, 6th Bomb Group (shot down over Tokyo, 25/26 May 45)
POW 5.45 ? 9.45
Kempeitai prison Tokyo, Camp Omori |
Ray
Makepeace
Minneapolis, MN |
Army 60th Coast
Artillery (captured May 42 on Corregidor)
POW .42 ? 9.45
Corregidor, port area Manila, hellship, Kamioka
JAPAN |
Robert
Michelsen+
Apple Valley, MN |
Army
Air Corps B-29 side gunner, 20th Air
Force, 29th Bomb Group (shot down over Tokyo, 25/26 May 45)
POW 5.45 ? 9.45
Kempeitai prison Tokyo, Camp Omori |
Walter Miller
Hibbing, MN |
Army 60th
Coast Artillery (captured May 42 on
Corregidor)
POW 5.42 ? 9.45
Corregidor, Cabanatuan, Mukden (Manchuria) |
Glenn Oliver
Brainerd, MN |
Army 194th Tank
Battalion (captured Apr 42
at Bataan)
POW 4.42 ? 9.45
Bataan
March,
Camp
O?Donnell,
Cabanatuan,
Nichols Field, Formosa, hellship, Osaka JAPAN |
Ken
Porwoll
Brainerd, MN |
Army 194th Tank
Battalion (captured Apr 42
at Bataan)
POW 4.42 ? 9.45
Bataan
March,
Camp
O?Donnell,
Bilibid Prison,
Cabanatuan,
hellship, Niigata JAPAN |
Marvin Roslansky
Lakefield, MN |
Marine Corps Guam Island
(captured Dec 41)
POW 12.41 ? 9.45
Zentsuji JAPAN |
Irving Silverlieb
St Louis Park, MN |
Marine Corps
Wake
Island (captured Dec 41)
12.41 ? 9.45
China
(3 locations), Korea, Hakodate
JAPAN |
Howard Swanson
Minneapolis, MN |
Marine
Corps Fourth Marines (captured May 42 on Corregidor)
POW 5.42 - 9.45
Corregidor,
Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, port area Manila, hellship, Kamioka
JAPAN |
Gerald Wakefield
Litchfield, MN |
Army
59th Coast Artillery (captured May 42 on Corregidor)
POW 5.42 - 9.45
Corregidor,
Palawan, hellship, JAPAN (two
locations) |
Glenn Wohlferd
St Charles, MN |
Army
60th Coast Artillery (captured May 42 on Corregidor)
POW 5.42 - 9.45
Corregidor, Cabanatuan,
Mukden (Manchuria) |
James Whittaker +
Brooklyn Center, MN |
British Army communications, Royal Signal Corps, 1939-42
(captured Mar 42 in Malaysia)
POW 3.42 ? 9.45
Burma-Thailand Railroad laborer |
