Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy Who Died as POWs in the Hands
of the Japanese 1941-1945
Transcribed from the December 1969 issue of "The QUAN" by Robert Hudson and
edited with information from
the "Register of Graduates, USMA" and an article by John E. Olson entitled "USMA
in the Philippines 1941-42"
which was published in the July 1993 issue of "Assembly" magazine.
The following is a list of all graduates of the United States Military
Academy who lost their lives while they
were prisoners of war in the hands of the Japanese. After each name is the
USMA number and class which
enables finding additional information in the "Register of Graduates, USMA"
under the particular graduate's
name. The code symbols have the following meaning.
Codes:
D- Died in Japanese prison camp or on a prison ship of disease,
malnutrition, etc. (Other than wounds)
K- Summarily killed or executed while a prisoner of war or in the process of
capture.
Ks- Killed in Allied air or submarine attack on Japanese prisoner of war ship or
died later from wounds suffered
in such an attack.
F- Foreign Cadet
Code |
Name |
Rank |
Branch |
USMA # |
Class |
D |
Paul D. Bunker |
Col |
Coast Artillery Corps |
4154 |
1903 |
K, F |
Vincente Lim |
BG |
Philippine Army |
5282 |
1914 |
K, F |
Fidel V. Segundo |
Col |
Field Artillery |
5804 |
1917 |
Ks |
Wade R. Cothran, Jr. |
Major |
Field Artillery |
6128 |
1918 |
K, F |
Eustaquio Baclig |
Lt Col |
Philippine Scouts |
6195 |
1918 |
K |
Robert H. Vesey |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
6232 |
1918 |
D |
Edwin V. Kerr |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
6327 |
1919 |
Ks |
Leo C. Paquet |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
6339 |
1919 |
Ks |
Howard R. Perry, Jr. |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
6374 |
1919 |
Ks |
Edward H. Bowes |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
6385 |
1919 |
Ks |
Kenneth S. Olson |
Lt Col |
Finance Corps |
6454 |
1919 |
Ks |
Russell J. Nelson |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
6457 |
1919 |
D |
Howard D. Johnson |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
6515 |
1919 |
Ks |
George D. Vanture |
Col |
Field Artillery |
6603 |
1920 |
K, F |
Pastor Martelino |
Col |
Philippine Scouts |
6605 |
1920 |
K |
John T. Ward |
Lt Col |
Cavalry |
6806 |
1920 |
Ks |
Albert Svihra |
Lt Col |
Judge Advocate General |
6860 |
1922 |
D |
Ronald G. MacDonald |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
6952 |
1922 |
K |
Ulysses J. L. Peoples, Jr. |
Lt Col |
Ordnance Corps |
7058 |
1923 |
K |
Howard E. C. Breitung |
Lt Col |
Coast Artillery Corps |
7158 |
1923 |
K, F |
Alejandro D. Garcia |
Major |
Philippine Scouts |
7167 |
1923 |
Ks |
Cyril Q. Marron |
Lt Col |
Judge Advocate General |
7173 |
1923 |
Ks |
David S. Babcock |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
7183 |
1923 |
Ks |
Hal C. Granberry |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
7202 |
1923 |
Ks |
James R. Lindsay, Jr. |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
7218 |
1923 |
Ks |
Floyd A. Mitchell |
Lt Col |
Coast Artillery Corps |
7260 |
1924 |
D |
Lester J. Tacy |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
7357 |
1924 |
Ks |
Albert D. Miller |
Lt Col |
Finance Corps |
7395 |
1924 |
D |
Lewis S. Kirkpatrick |
Lt Col |
Coast Artillery Corps |
7435 |
1924 |
D |
James E. Macklin |
Lt Col |
Quartermaster Corps |
7512 |
1924 |
Ks |
Reed Graves |
Lt Col |
Coast Artillery Corps |
7524 |
1924 |
K |
Ralph T. Garver |
Lt Col |
Adjutant General Department |
7646 |
1925 |
Ks |
John H. Bennett |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
7796 |
1925 |
Ks |
Harry J. Harper |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
7801 |
1925 |
D |
Edward C. Mack |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
7805 |
1925 |
D |
John L. Lewis |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
7814 |
1925 |
Ks |
Clarence H. Smith |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
7822 |
1925 |
D |
Thaddeus E. Smyth |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
7824 |
1925 |
D |
Clair M. Conzelman |
Lt Col |
Coast Artillery Corps |
7943 |
1926 |
Ks |
John P. Woodbridge |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
7979 |
1926 |
D |
Thomas R. Horton |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8016 |
1926 |
D |
Maurice F.Daly |
Col |
Air Corps |
8056 |
1927 |
Ks |
Stanley B. Bonner |
Major |
Field Artillery |
8086 |
1927 |
K |
Harold J. Coyle |
Major |
Field Artillery |
8117 |
1927 |
D |
Theodore Kalakuka |
Lt Col |
Quartermaster Corps |
8130 |
1927 |
D |
Joseph Ganahl |
Lt Col |
Field Artillery |
8143 |
1927 |
Ks |
Montgomery McKee |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8206 |
1927 |
K |
Martin Moses |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8213 |
1927 |
D |
James S. Neary |
Major |
Ordnance Corps |
8310 |
1928 |
Ks |
Leslie G. Ross |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
8314 |
1928 |
Ks |
Fred O. Tally |
Lt Col |
Air Corps |
8371 |
1928 |
D |
Leigh A. Fuller |
Major |
Infantry |
8393 |
1928 |
D |
Hampden E. Montgomery |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8425 |
1928 |
D |
Eugene T, Lewis |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8450 |
1928 |
D |
Allen Thayer |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8451 |
1928 |
K |
James M. Ivy |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8464 |
1928 |
D |
Frank E. Fries |
Major |
Corps of Engineers |
8512 |
1929 |
D |
William J. Latimer, Jr. |
Major |
Ordnance Corps |
8585 |
1929 |
Ks |
Dale J. Kinnee |
Major |
Infantry |
8677 |
1929 |
D |
Thomas B. Smothers, Jr. |
Major |
Quartermaster Corps |
8728 |
1929 |
D |
Cornelius Z. Byrd |
Lt Col |
Quartermaster Corps |
8755 |
1929 |
K |
Arthur K. Noble |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
8775 |
1929 |
Ks |
Robert B. Lothrop |
Major |
Corps of Engineers |
8797 |
1930 |
Ks |
Lawrence A. Bosworth |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
8803 |
1930 |
K |
James N. Vaughn |
Major |
Signal Corps |
8839 |
1930 |
Ks |
Robert F. Haggerty |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
8850 |
1930 |
Ks |
Harry B. Packard |
Major |
Field Artillery |
8856 |
1930 |
D |
Marshall H. Hurt, Jr. |
Major |
Infantry |
8953 |
1930 |
D |
Joe C. East |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
8959 |
1930 |
Ks |
Winston R. Maxwell |
Major |
Ordnance Corps |
8992 |
1930 |
Ks |
Frederick G. Saint |
Lt Col |
Corps of Engineers |
9031 |
1931 |
D |
James C. Blanning |
Major |
Cavalry |
9135 |
1931 |
Ks |
Harry J. Fleeger |
Major |
Cavalry |
9136 |
1931 |
Ks |
John N. Raker |
Capt |
Air Corps |
9156 |
1931 |
Ks |
Howard M. Pahl |
Major |
Infantry |
9234 |
1931 |
D |
Charles I. Humber, Jr. |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
9278 |
1931 |
Ks |
James T. McClellan |
Major |
Infantry |
9306 |
1931 |
D |
Robert D. Glassburn |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9400 |
1932 |
D |
Erven C. Somerville |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9404 |
1932 |
K |
Dwight D. Edison |
Lt Col |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9456 |
1932 |
D |
William H. Maguire |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
9488 |
1932 |
D |
William R. Thomas |
Major |
Field Artillery |
9560 |
1932 |
D |
William H. Ball |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9613 |
1933 |
Ks |
Harry Julian |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9628 |
1933 |
Ks |
Thomas K. MacNair |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9656 |
1933 |
D |
Harry W. Schenck |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9662 |
1933 |
KS |
George H. Crawford |
Major |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9714 |
1933 |
D |
Samuel McF. McReynolds, Jr. |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
9718 |
1933 |
Ks |
Peter P. Bernd |
Capt |
Ordnance Corps |
9747 |
1933 |
K |
Charles F. Harrison |
Major |
Chemical Warfare Service |
9802 |
1933 |
Ks |
Roy D. Gregory |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
9889 |
1933 |
Ks |
Miller P. Warren, Jr. |
Major |
Infantry |
9912 |
1933 |
D |
Byron E. Brugge |
Col |
Air Corps |
9962 |
1934 |
Ks |
Thompson B. Maury, 3d |
Major |
Field Artillery |
9964 |
1934 |
D |
Howard M. Batson, Jr. |
Major |
Field Artillery |
9988 |
1934 |
D |
Lawrence K. Meade |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
10065 |
1934 |
D |
Edmund W. Wilkes |
Capt |
Infantry |
10092 |
1934 |
Ks |
Richard A. Smith |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
10095 |
1934 |
Ks |
Stanley Holmes |
Major |
Infantry |
10104 |
1934 |
Ks |
William S. VanNostrand |
Lt Col |
Cavalry |
10105 |
1934 |
Ks |
Paul M. Jones |
Major |
Cavalry |
10367 |
1935 |
Ks |
John Neiger |
Major |
Infantry |
10400 |
1935 |
Ks |
Carl Baehr, Jr. |
Major |
Field Artillery |
10628 |
1936 |
Ks |
Harry R. Melton, Jr. |
Col |
Air Corps |
10631 |
1936 |
Ks |
Lawrence F. Prichard |
Major |
Infantry |
10640 |
1936 |
Ks |
William J. Priestly |
Major |
Infantry |
10649 |
1936 |
Ks |
Karol A. Bauer |
Major |
Infantry |
10652 |
1936 |
Ks |
John C. Goldtrap |
Major |
Infantry |
10697 |
1936 |
Ks |
Campbell H. Snyder |
Major |
Corps of Engineers |
10737 |
1937 |
Ks |
William E. W. Farrell |
Capt |
Infantry |
10768 |
1937 |
Ks |
William P. Baldwin |
Major |
Infantry |
10828 |
1937 |
D |
Godfrey R. Ames |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
10841 |
1937 |
Ks |
Philip G. Lauman, Jr. |
Major |
Field Artillery |
10844 |
1937 |
Ks |
William J. Dunmyer |
Major |
Infantry |
10845 |
1937 |
D |
Homer H. Uglow |
Major |
Infantry |
10878 |
1937 |
Ks |
Charles J. Browne |
Major |
Infantry |
10896 |
1937 |
Ks |
Richard F. Hill |
Major |
Infantry |
10917 |
1937 |
D |
Horace J. Greeley |
Major |
Air Corps |
10921 |
1937 |
Ks |
William H. Traeger |
Major |
Infantry |
10942 |
1937 |
D |
William L. Robinson |
Lt Col |
Infantry |
10944 |
1937 |
Ks |
Hueston R. Wynkoop |
Major |
Infantry |
10962 |
1937 |
Ks |
Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. |
Major |
Infantry |
10982 |
1937 |
Ks |
William A. Gay |
Major |
Corps of Engineers |
11051 |
1938 |
Ks |
George Kappes |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11106 |
1938 |
Ks |
Frederick A. Miller |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11108 |
1938 |
K |
Joseph R. Barker, II |
Capt |
Cavalry |
11137 |
1938 |
D |
Edgar S. Rosenstock |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11141 |
1938 |
Ks |
Frederick J. Gerlich |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11142 |
1938 |
D |
Lawrence C. Baldwin |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11153 |
1938 |
K |
Ralph B. Praeger |
Major |
Cavalry |
11167 |
1938 |
Ks |
James R. Holmes |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11177 |
1938 |
D |
Samuel L. Barbour, Jr. |
Major |
Field Artillery |
11200 |
1938 |
D |
Earle M. Shiley |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11216 |
1938 |
Ks |
Louis N. Dosh |
Capt |
Infantry |
11272 |
1938 |
D |
Robert A. Barker |
Capt |
Infantry |
11280 |
1938 |
D |
Coral M. Talbott |
Capt |
Infantry |
11295 |
1938 |
D |
Edgar H. Dale |
Capt |
Infantry |
11296 |
1938 |
Ks |
Collin B. Whitehurst, Jr. |
Major |
Infantry |
11333 |
1938 |
D |
John H. Davis, Jr. |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11371 |
1939 |
Ks |
Charles E. White |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11376 |
1939 |
Ks |
Philip H. Lehr |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11438 |
1939 |
D |
Kenneth C. Griffiths |
Capt |
Field Artillery |
11445 |
1939 |
Ks |
George T. Breitling |
Capt |
Infantry |
11550 |
1939 |
D |
Samuel A. Madison |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11554 |
1939 |
Ks |
Donald R. Snoke |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11573 |
1939 |
D |
Rudyard K. Grimes |
Capt |
Infantry |
11633 |
1939 |
Ks |
Herbert H. Eichlin, Jr. |
Capt |
Infantry |
11722 |
1939 |
D |
Wiley L. Dixon, Jr. |
Capt |
Infantry |
11728 |
1939 |
Ks |
John F. Presnell, Jr. |
Capt |
Corps of Engineers |
11793 |
1940 |
Ks |
Robert G. Cooper |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11797 |
1940 |
D |
Joseph V. Iacobucci |
Capt |
Signal Corps |
11813 |
1940 |
D |
Robert I. Wheat |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
11821 |
1940 |
K |
Vincente E. Gepte |
Capt |
Philippine Army |
11832 |
1940 |
Ks |
John J. Murphy, Jr. |
Capt |
Field Artillery |
11894 |
1940 |
Ks |
Walter I. Wald |
Capt |
Field Artillery |
12057 |
1940 |
D |
Augustus J. Cullen |
Capt |
Coast Artillery Corps |
12069 |
1940 |
Ks |
Robert P. Pierpont |
1st Lt |
Corps of Engineers |
12307 |
1941 |
Ks |
Hector J. Polla |
1st Lt |
Infantry |
12576 |
1941 |
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