Looking for Information Bataan Death March MIA/POW. Maybe you knew of him. Serious people ONLY!!!!!?

Question

My great uncle was in the Bataan death march, and I would love to get in contact with anyone who may have known him. His name was Arnuald Joesph Ricard Jr. Born on July 5, 1921. Graduated from West Port High School in 1937. He was then in the Army Air Corp. 6th squadron in the Philippines and Corregidor. I know he was in the Bataan Death March, but he then went missing. Later on family was informed he had died, but that is the last of any information anyone has on him. I am hopeing that someone knew him and could tell me what kind of a guy he was. So please only real answers with real knowledge. I am serious and don't care to have this made into a joke. I would apperciate any help. Thank You.

If you did know him I would like to e-mail you. Let me know, and I will then give you mine. Thank You.

I just wanted to say, To EVERYONE OF YOU who answered my question, Thank you and God Bless you. I wish I had a magical wand to help you get to know you uncle Albannach, but I am sure he, like Joe Bloe's dad were excellent, stand up men who did America proud. Again, Thank You!

Answer 1

There is an organization of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor. Those defenders are the ones who were taken captive by the Japanese and were those who were on the Bataan Death March. The address and phone number is provided below. Th ey had their annual convention in Washington in April, so I suspect they are still an active group, despite the advancing ages of those brave men:
American Defenders of Bataan And Corregidor
9407 Fernglen
San Antonio, TX 78240
Tel: [phone]

Answer 2

WV, my hearfelt condolences. My uncle made the Bataan Death March. He was interred at Cabanatuan Prison Camp #2 and worked in what passed for a kitchen. He used to sneak extra rations to those who were in worse condition than he was. In late June or early July he was sent with a group of prisoners back down the Bataan peninsula to collect weapons and ordinance that was abandoned by the U. S. Army. When he returned he fell ill with malaria of the brain and died on June 13, 1942. The prisoners attending the sick couldn't even get him an aspirin.

Like you, that is all the information I have on him. Sgt. Charles E. Mitchell, 200th CA, Bty F/515th CA, Bty F.

God Bless your great uncle and all the men like him, they endured more than we can ever imagine.

Answer 3

My dad was in the Air Corps and missed being deployed to Corregidor by a few days. He lost a couple of friends in the Death March. Unfortunately, I can't help you, Dad died in 1996. There are organizations that might be able to, however. Try your local Veterans of Foreign Wars office.

Answer 4

i'm not precisely a liberal, yet I understand a number of the viewpoints: a million) the warriors of Bataan have been, properly, squaddies, that they had made a call, actively or passively, to settle for death or capture. the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been in many circumstances civilians, and those cities have been of the least conceivable military magnitude--a actuality which spared them from lots popular bombing and so made the perfect, "virgin" targets to coach the potential of the A-bomb needless to say. 2) The U.S. practiced the imprisonment of voters of eastern respectable without trial, and for this reason, could have already forfeited a minimum of many of the ethical intense floor related to Bataan. 3) Oriental conflict customs did not quite comprise the assumption of the humane scientific care of prisonners, yet western diplomats had already defined the kiling of civilians and killing on such a great scale as unpermittable. hence, we knew better and that they did not. 4) The U.S. did not run a nuclear challenge against Germany. (word: it became planned, however the Germans did not final long sufficient for us to nuke them.) some have misinterpretted this simply by fact the effects of an acceptance of white mass-murderers, which includes Hitler, over an oriental warlord) 5) the eastern cupboard became, on the time of Hiroshima, making ineffective peace overtures to the U.S., however those failed tragically simply by a misunderstand of one member's use of the word "mokusatsu"--interprettable as the two "to proceed to be in sensible inactivity" or "to hold in contempt"--to describe the cupboard's meant reaction to a minimum of one American grant for resign. some, despite the fact that, sense that the failure of the talks became simply by alleged American unwillingness to make peace. 6) The after-outcomes of that bombing have risk-free the potential for the tip of civilization--an result worse than the different in historic previous. some have measured their judgement of the bomb by skill of this actuality.

Answer 5

Was this the one involving the railroad in Japan? I think their is an organization that provides info for things like that.

Answer 6

hope you get your information. check on the internet. yahoo or google. a bad time for the lads. God bless them all..........