Bianchi, Willibald Charles, 1LT

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rank
First Lieutenant

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
1542-Infantry Unit Commander

Last MOS Group
Infantry (Officer)

Primary Unit
1942-1945, 1542, 45th Infantry Regiment (PS) , Philippine Division

Service Years
1940 - 1945

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Minnesota

Year of Birth
1915

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Casualty Info

Home Town New Ulm, Minnesota	Last Address Bagac, Philippines

Casualty Date Jan 09, 1945
Cause Hostile, Died	Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Philippines	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Honolulu, Hawaii	Wall/Plot Coordinates Section MA, Grave 39

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Association Memberships


	1942, Congressional Medal Of Honor Society [Verified]
	1942, Medal of Honor Recipients [Verified] - Assoc. Page
	1942, Congressional Medal Of Honor Society [Verified]
	1942, The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor [Verified]
	1945, World War II Fallen [Verified]

Photo Album (More...)

Service Photo

Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)/Battle of Bataan
From Month/Year December / 1941	To Month/Year April / 1942
Description The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank. It was the largest surrender in American and Filipino military history, and was the largest United States surrender since the Civil War's Battle of Harper's Ferry. Ultimately, more than 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American prisoners of war were forced into the infamous Bataan Death March. After more than two years of fighting in the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled a promise to return to overseeing the The Campaign for the Liberation of the Philippines. As part of the campaign, the Battle for the Recapture of Bataan (31 January to 21 February 1945) by US Forces and Philippine guerillas avenged the surrender of the defunct United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) to invading Japanese forces.