Harold A. Hall

World War II
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POW
Fallen

County:
Dickey

Date of Loss:

Recovered:
Remains not recovered

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private

Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968

Major Battle/Theatre:
Asiatic Pacific Theater

Circumstances:

Died in Cabanatuan POW camp of Malaria

Biography:

Harold Hall was born in Delamere, North Dakota on April 8, 1914. Private Harold A. Hall joined the U.S. Army from California and was a member of the 75th Ordnance Company in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured on Corregidor Island following the American surrender on May 6, 1942, and died of malaria on July 4, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private Hall is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.