Arthur M. Arnone
Service #: 33061872
Rank: Private, U.S. Army Air Forces
Unit: 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), V Bomber Command
Entered Service From: Maryland
Date of Death: 01 October 1942, from dysentery in the Japanese POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121.
Buried: Manila American Cemetery – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
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1920 United States Federal Census (20 January 1920): Mount Savage, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 11B, family 229, Morantown Road) – Otto Arnone (20/12 Maryland). His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 12B, family 236a, Parkersburg Road) – Ettore Arnone (12 Maryland).
He attended Eckhart Elementary School and Beall High School where he was a member of the baseball team.
In 1937 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team, one of six teams that played in the George's Creek League.
In 1938 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team that played in the Tri-County League.
In May 1939, Arthur signed a contract to play for the Eckhart team in the Will's Creek Valley Baseball League. They won the championship that year.
In 1940 he was a pitcher for Eckhart in the Pen-Mar League.
Arthur became a barber and had his own shop.
1940 United States Federal Census (13 April 1940): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 6A, household 97, State Road) – Arthur M. Arnone (21 Maryland, Barber, Own Business). He had completed 8th grade. Arthur had lived in the same house in 1935.
Arthur Arnone (22, 11 May 1918 Maryland), a resident of Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 2313, Order No. 659) on 16 October 1940 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland. He listed his father, Guisseppe Arnone as the person who would always know his address. Arthur was self-employed. He was described as 5' 11" in height, 185 lbs, with a dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair.
Arthur M. Arnone (1918 Maryland), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland enlisted at a Private (S/N 33061872) in the U.S. Army on 16 May 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed 4 years of high school and was working as a barber.
Ten Replacements to Leave Frostburg May 16
Frostburg, May 6 – Earl Hill, secretary of Draft Board 4, announced the ten replacements, who will leave here May 16, 7:30 a.m. on the Blue Ridge Bus for Baltimore induction station for a year's military training. They are Arthur Arnone, Eckhard; ... Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland, ), 06 May 1941, Tuesday, page 16.
After completing his basic training, Private Arnone was assigned to the 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), U.S. Army Air Corps, based at the Savannah Air Base in Savannah, Georgia.
With the possibility of war looming on the horizon, they were sent to the Philippine Islands. The 454 Ordnance Company left San Francisco, California on 01 November 1941 aboard the S.S. President Coolidge (passenger ship turned troop transport). On board with the 454 Ordnance were the squadrons of the 27th Bombardment Group; the 16th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Squadron, Headquarters Squadron and the 48th Material Squadron, plus a chemical detachment. Also on board were the following units: 5th Air Base Group and the 1st and 34th Pursuit Squadrons. The Coolidge arrived in Manila on a clear sunny Thanksgiving Thursday, 20 November (via Hawaii and Guam). "The men were disembarked off the Coolidge as a Philippine military band played patriotic music. Trucks were lined up waiting to transport the men to Fort McKinley. The Coolidge was the last desperately needed reinforcement for General McArthur."
The 454 Ordnance Company numbered six officers and 180 enlisted men. Just three weeks later war came to the Philippines on 08 December 1941. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered their withdrawal to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force.
The 454th assisted in the evacuation of Clark Field to Bataan Field and then were stationed at Mariveles Field on the western tip of Bataan. With no planes, they took care of artillery ordnance, 155 projectiles and propellants, and 75mm and 37mm and machine gun ammunition and spare parts for all the guns. They loaded bombs and ammunition and send it to the front line. The men were also issued .45's pistols and .30 caliber M1 rifles and given responsibility for part of the beach defenses on Bataan. They were never in the actual fighting.
In December 1941 Arthur was serving on the Bataan peninsula and sent a telegram to his father stating that he was well.
On January 6th, the battle for Bataan began.
From the very beginning, Bataan men were cut to 1/2 rations, and very soon, to 1/4 rations. About four weeks later, they were living on 1/8 rations, that is, when food was available to them. Towards the end, it was changed to 1/16th of their rations...Quite often, they would go several days with no food, unless they could catch something in the jungle." Source: Federico Baldassarre letter
In the wake of starvation came diseases, such as malaria, dengue, scurvy, beriberi and amebic dysentery. The average American soldier lost 15-25 pounds and malaria was as high as 35 percent among front line units.
On Good Friday, 03 April 1942, General Homma, with the addition of fresh troops, began an all-out offensive on Bataan. By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, Major General Edward P. King, commander of the forces on Bataan, was convinced his troops could not physically resist any more and decided to surrender to prevent further loss of life. On 09 April 1942, Maj. Gen. King surrendered the Luzon Force to the Japanese. Before the surrender the men of the 454th were ordered to destroy their guns and disable their trucks so that the Japanese couldn't use them.
After hearing of the surrender, General Wainwright on Corregidor sent a cable to President Roosevelt, stating "I have done all that could have been done to hold Bataan, but starved men without air support and with inadequate field artillery support cannot endure the terrific aerial and artillery bombardment that my troops were subjected to."
Private Arthur M. Arnone along with 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese, were subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March. When the Fil-American soldiers began the Death March they were in terrible physical condition. For 6 to 9 days (depending on their starting point) they were forced to walk the roughly sixty-five miles to San Fernando, enduring abuse by Japanese guards and seeing the deaths of thousands of fellow soldiers. At San Fernando, the Japanese stuffed about 100 men into steel-sided boxcars for the twenty-five-mile trip to Capas. The scorching hot boxcars were packed so tight that the men could not even sit down. When the train arrived at Capas the POW's were offloaded and marched the final nine miles to Camp O'Donnell.
Arthur Arnone Is Missing in The Philippines
Eckhart Resident Left Frostburg May, 16, 1941 as Draftee
FROSTBURG, May 24 –Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, has been notified by the War Department that his son, Arthur Arnone, is missing in the Philippines. He was serving on the Bataan peninsula with American and Philippine troops and sent a telegram to his father in December that he was well.
Young Arnone was in the second group of draftees to leave here, May 16, 1941, following the adoption of the selective service system. He is twenty-four years old and was popular in Eckhart where he conducted a barber shop and pitched on the Eckhart baseball team.
The Cumberland office of the Red Cross announced last week that it will be several months before a list of prisoners of the Japs will be available.
Arnone is the first resident of Eckhart listed as missing. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 25 May 1942, page 7.
On 01 June 1942 Private Arnone was stricken with dysentery while a prisoner in Camp O'Donnell.
Surviving the brutal treatment by the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell (about 1500 American and 22,000 Filipino prisoners of war died in just three months) Private Arnone was transferred to the Cabanatuan POW Camp No. 1, approximately 8 kilometers east of the town by the same name.
In early June of 1942, prisoners from Camp O'Donnell began to stream into Camp No. 1, joining the men captured on Corregidor. Most of the POWs were assigned to work details and farm labor. Because of the poor health of the men from O'Donnell, the death rate at Camp #1 soared.
Private Arthur M. Arnone age 24, (S/N 33061872), Ordnance Department, died at 8:00 am on 01 October 1942, while being treated for dysentery in the prison hospital, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121. He was one of eight men to die that day. By the time the camp was liberated on 30 January 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men who were captured on Bataan. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs who died that day.
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Private Arnone was listed as missing in action after the fall of Bataan.
September 1942 – Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, received word that his son, Pvt. Arthur Arnone, who was with the U.S. Army at Bataan, is still missing, but the communication from the Red Cross, stated that his name is not among the list of the dead. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 14 September 1942, page 9.
Official word that he was a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp was received by his family on 17 April 1943. Sadly Arthur was already dead.
Die in Jap Prison
Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman; Pvt. Arthur M. Arnone
The deaths of two Allegany county soldiers in Japanese prison camps have been reported by the War Department. They are Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman, 27, this city, and Pvt. Arthur Michael Arnone, 25, of Eckhart.
Messages confirming their deaths were received on July 4 by Mrs. Joseph Wagner, 115 Maple street, sister of Pvt. Lehman, and by Joseph Arnone, father of Pvt. Arnone.
Before his induction in the spring of 1941, Pvt. Lehman was manager of the American Store at Central and Maryland avenues. Pvt. Arnone was in the second group of draftees leaving Frostburg on May 16, 1941. Both fell into enemy hands when the Philippines capitulated early in 1942.
The last letter received from Pvt. Lehman was dated November 1, 1941, the day of his embarkation at San Francisco. He was reported a prisoner of the Japanese by the War Department on January 29, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone's capture was confirmed on April 17, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone attended Eckhart elementary school and Beall high school where he played on the baseball team. Prior to his induction he was a barber. Word was received through the International Red Cross Sunday that the soldier had died *June 29, 1943.
*He had died on 01 October 1942
Besides his father, he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Anthony Inglese, Chicago; Miss Mary Arnone; and Miss Olimpia Arnone, Eckhart; four brothers, Pvt. Claude Arnone, Fort Myer, Va.; Minotti Arnone, Enordo Arnone, Eckhart, and Orient Arnone, Chicago.
Because of his son being reported missing in action, Mr. Arnone was given the honor of unveiling the Eckhart honor plaque on Sunday, June 13. It was then stated that young Arnone had been a prisoner since the battle of Bataan. After he had been reported missing in action, his father did not hear from him for over a year until last May when he was reported a prisoner. In the meantime the family have given him up as lost in action. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 07 July 1943, page 9.
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After the war his remains were recovered and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands – Block 2, Row 24, Grave 3033 (D-D 633). The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948. From there, according to the wishes of his next of kin (father, Mr. Joseph Arnone) Private Arthur Michael Arnone was buried in his final resting place in the 7701 Ft. McKinley Cemetery (now known as the Manila American Cemetery) – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
In September 1946 the newly formed American Legion's Post in Eckhart was named in his honor – Arthur Arnone Post No. 212. He was the first soldier from Eckhart to die in World War II.
Service #: 33061872
Rank: Private, U.S. Army Air Forces
Unit: 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), V Bomber Command
Entered Service From: Maryland
Date of Death: 01 October 1942, from dysentery in the Japanese POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121.
Buried: Manila American Cemetery – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
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1920 United States Federal Census (20 January 1920): Mount Savage, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 11B, family 229, Morantown Road) – Otto Arnone (20/12 Maryland). His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 12B, family 236a, Parkersburg Road) – Ettore Arnone (12 Maryland).
He attended Eckhart Elementary School and Beall High School where he was a member of the baseball team.
In 1937 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team, one of six teams that played in the George's Creek League.
In 1938 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team that played in the Tri-County League.
In May 1939, Arthur signed a contract to play for the Eckhart team in the Will's Creek Valley Baseball League. They won the championship that year.
In 1940 he was a pitcher for Eckhart in the Pen-Mar League.
Arthur became a barber and had his own shop.
1940 United States Federal Census (13 April 1940): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 6A, household 97, State Road) – Arthur M. Arnone (21 Maryland, Barber, Own Business). He had completed 8th grade. Arthur had lived in the same house in 1935.
Arthur Arnone (22, 11 May 1918 Maryland), a resident of Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 2313, Order No. 659) on 16 October 1940 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland. He listed his father, Guisseppe Arnone as the person who would always know his address. Arthur was self-employed. He was described as 5' 11" in height, 185 lbs, with a dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair.
Arthur M. Arnone (1918 Maryland), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland enlisted at a Private (S/N 33061872) in the U.S. Army on 16 May 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed 4 years of high school and was working as a barber.
Ten Replacements to Leave Frostburg May 16
Frostburg, May 6 – Earl Hill, secretary of Draft Board 4, announced the ten replacements, who will leave here May 16, 7:30 a.m. on the Blue Ridge Bus for Baltimore induction station for a year's military training. They are Arthur Arnone, Eckhard; ... Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland, ), 06 May 1941, Tuesday, page 16.
After completing his basic training, Private Arnone was assigned to the 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), U.S. Army Air Corps, based at the Savannah Air Base in Savannah, Georgia.
With the possibility of war looming on the horizon, they were sent to the Philippine Islands. The 454 Ordnance Company left San Francisco, California on 01 November 1941 aboard the S.S. President Coolidge (passenger ship turned troop transport). On board with the 454 Ordnance were the squadrons of the 27th Bombardment Group; the 16th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Squadron, Headquarters Squadron and the 48th Material Squadron, plus a chemical detachment. Also on board were the following units: 5th Air Base Group and the 1st and 34th Pursuit Squadrons. The Coolidge arrived in Manila on a clear sunny Thanksgiving Thursday, 20 November (via Hawaii and Guam). "The men were disembarked off the Coolidge as a Philippine military band played patriotic music. Trucks were lined up waiting to transport the men to Fort McKinley. The Coolidge was the last desperately needed reinforcement for General McArthur."
The 454 Ordnance Company numbered six officers and 180 enlisted men. Just three weeks later war came to the Philippines on 08 December 1941. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered their withdrawal to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force.
The 454th assisted in the evacuation of Clark Field to Bataan Field and then were stationed at Mariveles Field on the western tip of Bataan. With no planes, they took care of artillery ordnance, 155 projectiles and propellants, and 75mm and 37mm and machine gun ammunition and spare parts for all the guns. They loaded bombs and ammunition and send it to the front line. The men were also issued .45's pistols and .30 caliber M1 rifles and given responsibility for part of the beach defenses on Bataan. They were never in the actual fighting.
In December 1941 Arthur was serving on the Bataan peninsula and sent a telegram to his father stating that he was well.
On January 6th, the battle for Bataan began.
From the very beginning, Bataan men were cut to 1/2 rations, and very soon, to 1/4 rations. About four weeks later, they were living on 1/8 rations, that is, when food was available to them. Towards the end, it was changed to 1/16th of their rations...Quite often, they would go several days with no food, unless they could catch something in the jungle." Source: Federico Baldassarre letter
In the wake of starvation came diseases, such as malaria, dengue, scurvy, beriberi and amebic dysentery. The average American soldier lost 15-25 pounds and malaria was as high as 35 percent among front line units.
On Good Friday, 03 April 1942, General Homma, with the addition of fresh troops, began an all-out offensive on Bataan. By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, Major General Edward P. King, commander of the forces on Bataan, was convinced his troops could not physically resist any more and decided to surrender to prevent further loss of life. On 09 April 1942, Maj. Gen. King surrendered the Luzon Force to the Japanese. Before the surrender the men of the 454th were ordered to destroy their guns and disable their trucks so that the Japanese couldn't use them.
After hearing of the surrender, General Wainwright on Corregidor sent a cable to President Roosevelt, stating "I have done all that could have been done to hold Bataan, but starved men without air support and with inadequate field artillery support cannot endure the terrific aerial and artillery bombardment that my troops were subjected to."
Private Arthur M. Arnone along with 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese, were subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March. When the Fil-American soldiers began the Death March they were in terrible physical condition. For 6 to 9 days (depending on their starting point) they were forced to walk the roughly sixty-five miles to San Fernando, enduring abuse by Japanese guards and seeing the deaths of thousands of fellow soldiers. At San Fernando, the Japanese stuffed about 100 men into steel-sided boxcars for the twenty-five-mile trip to Capas. The scorching hot boxcars were packed so tight that the men could not even sit down. When the train arrived at Capas the POW's were offloaded and marched the final nine miles to Camp O'Donnell.
Arthur Arnone Is Missing in The Philippines
Eckhart Resident Left Frostburg May, 16, 1941 as Draftee
FROSTBURG, May 24 –Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, has been notified by the War Department that his son, Arthur Arnone, is missing in the Philippines. He was serving on the Bataan peninsula with American and Philippine troops and sent a telegram to his father in December that he was well.
Young Arnone was in the second group of draftees to leave here, May 16, 1941, following the adoption of the selective service system. He is twenty-four years old and was popular in Eckhart where he conducted a barber shop and pitched on the Eckhart baseball team.
The Cumberland office of the Red Cross announced last week that it will be several months before a list of prisoners of the Japs will be available.
Arnone is the first resident of Eckhart listed as missing. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 25 May 1942, page 7.
On 01 June 1942 Private Arnone was stricken with dysentery while a prisoner in Camp O'Donnell.
Surviving the brutal treatment by the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell (about 1500 American and 22,000 Filipino prisoners of war died in just three months) Private Arnone was transferred to the Cabanatuan POW Camp No. 1, approximately 8 kilometers east of the town by the same name.
In early June of 1942, prisoners from Camp O'Donnell began to stream into Camp No. 1, joining the men captured on Corregidor. Most of the POWs were assigned to work details and farm labor. Because of the poor health of the men from O'Donnell, the death rate at Camp #1 soared.
Private Arthur M. Arnone age 24, (S/N 33061872), Ordnance Department, died at 8:00 am on 01 October 1942, while being treated for dysentery in the prison hospital, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121. He was one of eight men to die that day. By the time the camp was liberated on 30 January 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men who were captured on Bataan. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs who died that day.
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Private Arnone was listed as missing in action after the fall of Bataan.
September 1942 – Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, received word that his son, Pvt. Arthur Arnone, who was with the U.S. Army at Bataan, is still missing, but the communication from the Red Cross, stated that his name is not among the list of the dead. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 14 September 1942, page 9.
Official word that he was a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp was received by his family on 17 April 1943. Sadly Arthur was already dead.
Die in Jap Prison
Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman; Pvt. Arthur M. Arnone
The deaths of two Allegany county soldiers in Japanese prison camps have been reported by the War Department. They are Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman, 27, this city, and Pvt. Arthur Michael Arnone, 25, of Eckhart.
Messages confirming their deaths were received on July 4 by Mrs. Joseph Wagner, 115 Maple street, sister of Pvt. Lehman, and by Joseph Arnone, father of Pvt. Arnone.
Before his induction in the spring of 1941, Pvt. Lehman was manager of the American Store at Central and Maryland avenues. Pvt. Arnone was in the second group of draftees leaving Frostburg on May 16, 1941. Both fell into enemy hands when the Philippines capitulated early in 1942.
The last letter received from Pvt. Lehman was dated November 1, 1941, the day of his embarkation at San Francisco. He was reported a prisoner of the Japanese by the War Department on January 29, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone's capture was confirmed on April 17, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone attended Eckhart elementary school and Beall high school where he played on the baseball team. Prior to his induction he was a barber. Word was received through the International Red Cross Sunday that the soldier had died *June 29, 1943.
*He had died on 01 October 1942
Besides his father, he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Anthony Inglese, Chicago; Miss Mary Arnone; and Miss Olimpia Arnone, Eckhart; four brothers, Pvt. Claude Arnone, Fort Myer, Va.; Minotti Arnone, Enordo Arnone, Eckhart, and Orient Arnone, Chicago.
Because of his son being reported missing in action, Mr. Arnone was given the honor of unveiling the Eckhart honor plaque on Sunday, June 13. It was then stated that young Arnone had been a prisoner since the battle of Bataan. After he had been reported missing in action, his father did not hear from him for over a year until last May when he was reported a prisoner. In the meantime the family have given him up as lost in action. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 07 July 1943, page 9.
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After the war his remains were recovered and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands – Block 2, Row 24, Grave 3033 (D-D 633). The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948. From there, according to the wishes of his next of kin (father, Mr. Joseph Arnone) Private Arthur Michael Arnone was buried in his final resting place in the 7701 Ft. McKinley Cemetery (now known as the Manila American Cemetery) – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
In September 1946 the newly formed American Legion's Post in Eckhart was named in his honor – Arthur Arnone Post No. 212. He was the first soldier from Eckhart to die in World War II.
Arthur M. Arnone
Service #: 33061872
Rank: Private, U.S. Army Air Forces
Unit: 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), V Bomber Command
Entered Service From: Maryland
Date of Death: 01 October 1942, from dysentery in the Japanese POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121.
Buried: Manila American Cemetery – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
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1920 United States Federal Census (20 January 1920): Mount Savage, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 11B, family 229, Morantown Road) – Otto Arnone (20/12 Maryland). His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 12B, family 236a, Parkersburg Road) – Ettore Arnone (12 Maryland).
He attended Eckhart Elementary School and Beall High School where he was a member of the baseball team.
In 1937 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team, one of six teams that played in the George's Creek League.
In 1938 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team that played in the Tri-County League.
In May 1939, Arthur signed a contract to play for the Eckhart team in the Will's Creek Valley Baseball League. They won the championship that year.
In 1940 he was a pitcher for Eckhart in the Pen-Mar League.
Arthur became a barber and had his own shop.
1940 United States Federal Census (13 April 1940): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 6A, household 97, State Road) – Arthur M. Arnone (21 Maryland, Barber, Own Business). He had completed 8th grade. Arthur had lived in the same house in 1935.
Arthur Arnone (22, 11 May 1918 Maryland), a resident of Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 2313, Order No. 659) on 16 October 1940 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland. He listed his father, Guisseppe Arnone as the person who would always know his address. Arthur was self-employed. He was described as 5' 11" in height, 185 lbs, with a dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair.
Arthur M. Arnone (1918 Maryland), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland enlisted at a Private (S/N 33061872) in the U.S. Army on 16 May 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed 4 years of high school and was working as a barber.
Ten Replacements to Leave Frostburg May 16
Frostburg, May 6 – Earl Hill, secretary of Draft Board 4, announced the ten replacements, who will leave here May 16, 7:30 a.m. on the Blue Ridge Bus for Baltimore induction station for a year's military training. They are Arthur Arnone, Eckhard; ... Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland, ), 06 May 1941, Tuesday, page 16.
After completing his basic training, Private Arnone was assigned to the 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), U.S. Army Air Corps, based at the Savannah Air Base in Savannah, Georgia.
With the possibility of war looming on the horizon, they were sent to the Philippine Islands. The 454 Ordnance Company left San Francisco, California on 01 November 1941 aboard the S.S. President Coolidge (passenger ship turned troop transport). On board with the 454 Ordnance were the squadrons of the 27th Bombardment Group; the 16th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Squadron, Headquarters Squadron and the 48th Material Squadron, plus a chemical detachment. Also on board were the following units: 5th Air Base Group and the 1st and 34th Pursuit Squadrons. The Coolidge arrived in Manila on a clear sunny Thanksgiving Thursday, 20 November (via Hawaii and Guam). "The men were disembarked off the Coolidge as a Philippine military band played patriotic music. Trucks were lined up waiting to transport the men to Fort McKinley. The Coolidge was the last desperately needed reinforcement for General McArthur."
The 454 Ordnance Company numbered six officers and 180 enlisted men. Just three weeks later war came to the Philippines on 08 December 1941. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered their withdrawal to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force.
The 454th assisted in the evacuation of Clark Field to Bataan Field and then were stationed at Mariveles Field on the western tip of Bataan. With no planes, they took care of artillery ordnance, 155 projectiles and propellants, and 75mm and 37mm and machine gun ammunition and spare parts for all the guns. They loaded bombs and ammunition and send it to the front line. The men were also issued .45's pistols and .30 caliber M1 rifles and given responsibility for part of the beach defenses on Bataan. They were never in the actual fighting.
In December 1941 Arthur was serving on the Bataan peninsula and sent a telegram to his father stating that he was well.
On January 6th, the battle for Bataan began.
From the very beginning, Bataan men were cut to 1/2 rations, and very soon, to 1/4 rations. About four weeks later, they were living on 1/8 rations, that is, when food was available to them. Towards the end, it was changed to 1/16th of their rations...Quite often, they would go several days with no food, unless they could catch something in the jungle." Source: Federico Baldassarre letter
In the wake of starvation came diseases, such as malaria, dengue, scurvy, beriberi and amebic dysentery. The average American soldier lost 15-25 pounds and malaria was as high as 35 percent among front line units.
On Good Friday, 03 April 1942, General Homma, with the addition of fresh troops, began an all-out offensive on Bataan. By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, Major General Edward P. King, commander of the forces on Bataan, was convinced his troops could not physically resist any more and decided to surrender to prevent further loss of life. On 09 April 1942, Maj. Gen. King surrendered the Luzon Force to the Japanese. Before the surrender the men of the 454th were ordered to destroy their guns and disable their trucks so that the Japanese couldn't use them.
After hearing of the surrender, General Wainwright on Corregidor sent a cable to President Roosevelt, stating "I have done all that could have been done to hold Bataan, but starved men without air support and with inadequate field artillery support cannot endure the terrific aerial and artillery bombardment that my troops were subjected to."
Private Arthur M. Arnone along with 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese, were subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March. When the Fil-American soldiers began the Death March they were in terrible physical condition. For 6 to 9 days (depending on their starting point) they were forced to walk the roughly sixty-five miles to San Fernando, enduring abuse by Japanese guards and seeing the deaths of thousands of fellow soldiers. At San Fernando, the Japanese stuffed about 100 men into steel-sided boxcars for the twenty-five-mile trip to Capas. The scorching hot boxcars were packed so tight that the men could not even sit down. When the train arrived at Capas the POW's were offloaded and marched the final nine miles to Camp O'Donnell.
Arthur Arnone Is Missing in The Philippines
Eckhart Resident Left Frostburg May, 16, 1941 as Draftee
FROSTBURG, May 24 –Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, has been notified by the War Department that his son, Arthur Arnone, is missing in the Philippines. He was serving on the Bataan peninsula with American and Philippine troops and sent a telegram to his father in December that he was well.
Young Arnone was in the second group of draftees to leave here, May 16, 1941, following the adoption of the selective service system. He is twenty-four years old and was popular in Eckhart where he conducted a barber shop and pitched on the Eckhart baseball team.
The Cumberland office of the Red Cross announced last week that it will be several months before a list of prisoners of the Japs will be available.
Arnone is the first resident of Eckhart listed as missing. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 25 May 1942, page 7.
On 01 June 1942 Private Arnone was stricken with dysentery while a prisoner in Camp O'Donnell.
Surviving the brutal treatment by the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell (about 1500 American and 22,000 Filipino prisoners of war died in just three months) Private Arnone was transferred to the Cabanatuan POW Camp No. 1, approximately 8 kilometers east of the town by the same name.
In early June of 1942, prisoners from Camp O'Donnell began to stream into Camp No. 1, joining the men captured on Corregidor. Most of the POWs were assigned to work details and farm labor. Because of the poor health of the men from O'Donnell, the death rate at Camp #1 soared.
Private Arthur M. Arnone age 24, (S/N 33061872), Ordnance Department, died at 8:00 am on 01 October 1942, while being treated for dysentery in the prison hospital, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121. He was one of eight men to die that day. By the time the camp was liberated on 30 January 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men who were captured on Bataan. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs who died that day.
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Private Arnone was listed as missing in action after the fall of Bataan.
September 1942 – Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, received word that his son, Pvt. Arthur Arnone, who was with the U.S. Army at Bataan, is still missing, but the communication from the Red Cross, stated that his name is not among the list of the dead. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 14 September 1942, page 9.
Official word that he was a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp was received by his family on 17 April 1943. Sadly Arthur was already dead.
Die in Jap Prison
Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman; Pvt. Arthur M. Arnone
The deaths of two Allegany county soldiers in Japanese prison camps have been reported by the War Department. They are Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman, 27, this city, and Pvt. Arthur Michael Arnone, 25, of Eckhart.
Messages confirming their deaths were received on July 4 by Mrs. Joseph Wagner, 115 Maple street, sister of Pvt. Lehman, and by Joseph Arnone, father of Pvt. Arnone.
Before his induction in the spring of 1941, Pvt. Lehman was manager of the American Store at Central and Maryland avenues. Pvt. Arnone was in the second group of draftees leaving Frostburg on May 16, 1941. Both fell into enemy hands when the Philippines capitulated early in 1942.
The last letter received from Pvt. Lehman was dated November 1, 1941, the day of his embarkation at San Francisco. He was reported a prisoner of the Japanese by the War Department on January 29, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone's capture was confirmed on April 17, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone attended Eckhart elementary school and Beall high school where he played on the baseball team. Prior to his induction he was a barber. Word was received through the International Red Cross Sunday that the soldier had died *June 29, 1943.
*He had died on 01 October 1942
Besides his father, he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Anthony Inglese, Chicago; Miss Mary Arnone; and Miss Olimpia Arnone, Eckhart; four brothers, Pvt. Claude Arnone, Fort Myer, Va.; Minotti Arnone, Enordo Arnone, Eckhart, and Orient Arnone, Chicago.
Because of his son being reported missing in action, Mr. Arnone was given the honor of unveiling the Eckhart honor plaque on Sunday, June 13. It was then stated that young Arnone had been a prisoner since the battle of Bataan. After he had been reported missing in action, his father did not hear from him for over a year until last May when he was reported a prisoner. In the meantime the family have given him up as lost in action. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 07 July 1943, page 9.
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After the war his remains were recovered and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands – Block 2, Row 24, Grave 3033 (D-D 633). The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948. From there, according to the wishes of his next of kin (father, Mr. Joseph Arnone) Private Arthur Michael Arnone was buried in his final resting place in the 7701 Ft. McKinley Cemetery (now known as the Manila American Cemetery) – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
In September 1946 the newly formed American Legion's Post in Eckhart was named in his honor – Arthur Arnone Post No. 212. He was the first soldier from Eckhart to die in World War II.
Service #: 33061872
Rank: Private, U.S. Army Air Forces
Unit: 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), V Bomber Command
Entered Service From: Maryland
Date of Death: 01 October 1942, from dysentery in the Japanese POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121.
Buried: Manila American Cemetery – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
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1920 United States Federal Census (20 January 1920): Mount Savage, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 11B, family 229, Morantown Road) – Otto Arnone (20/12 Maryland). His father was a coal miner.
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 12B, family 236a, Parkersburg Road) – Ettore Arnone (12 Maryland).
He attended Eckhart Elementary School and Beall High School where he was a member of the baseball team.
In 1937 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team, one of six teams that played in the George's Creek League.
In 1938 Arthur Arnone was a pitcher for the Eckhart baseball team that played in the Tri-County League.
In May 1939, Arthur signed a contract to play for the Eckhart team in the Will's Creek Valley Baseball League. They won the championship that year.
In 1940 he was a pitcher for Eckhart in the Pen-Mar League.
Arthur became a barber and had his own shop.
1940 United States Federal Census (13 April 1940): Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland (sheet 6A, household 97, State Road) – Arthur M. Arnone (21 Maryland, Barber, Own Business). He had completed 8th grade. Arthur had lived in the same house in 1935.
Arthur Arnone (22, 11 May 1918 Maryland), a resident of Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 2313, Order No. 659) on 16 October 1940 in Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland. He listed his father, Guisseppe Arnone as the person who would always know his address. Arthur was self-employed. He was described as 5' 11" in height, 185 lbs, with a dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair.
Arthur M. Arnone (1918 Maryland), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland enlisted at a Private (S/N 33061872) in the U.S. Army on 16 May 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed 4 years of high school and was working as a barber.
Ten Replacements to Leave Frostburg May 16
Frostburg, May 6 – Earl Hill, secretary of Draft Board 4, announced the ten replacements, who will leave here May 16, 7:30 a.m. on the Blue Ridge Bus for Baltimore induction station for a year's military training. They are Arthur Arnone, Eckhard; ... Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland, ), 06 May 1941, Tuesday, page 16.
After completing his basic training, Private Arnone was assigned to the 454th Ordnance Company, Aviation, 27th Bombardment Group (Light), U.S. Army Air Corps, based at the Savannah Air Base in Savannah, Georgia.
With the possibility of war looming on the horizon, they were sent to the Philippine Islands. The 454 Ordnance Company left San Francisco, California on 01 November 1941 aboard the S.S. President Coolidge (passenger ship turned troop transport). On board with the 454 Ordnance were the squadrons of the 27th Bombardment Group; the 16th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Squadron, Headquarters Squadron and the 48th Material Squadron, plus a chemical detachment. Also on board were the following units: 5th Air Base Group and the 1st and 34th Pursuit Squadrons. The Coolidge arrived in Manila on a clear sunny Thanksgiving Thursday, 20 November (via Hawaii and Guam). "The men were disembarked off the Coolidge as a Philippine military band played patriotic music. Trucks were lined up waiting to transport the men to Fort McKinley. The Coolidge was the last desperately needed reinforcement for General McArthur."
The 454 Ordnance Company numbered six officers and 180 enlisted men. Just three weeks later war came to the Philippines on 08 December 1941. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December. In response, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered their withdrawal to the Bataan peninsula to be a part of the Bataan Defense Force.
The 454th assisted in the evacuation of Clark Field to Bataan Field and then were stationed at Mariveles Field on the western tip of Bataan. With no planes, they took care of artillery ordnance, 155 projectiles and propellants, and 75mm and 37mm and machine gun ammunition and spare parts for all the guns. They loaded bombs and ammunition and send it to the front line. The men were also issued .45's pistols and .30 caliber M1 rifles and given responsibility for part of the beach defenses on Bataan. They were never in the actual fighting.
In December 1941 Arthur was serving on the Bataan peninsula and sent a telegram to his father stating that he was well.
On January 6th, the battle for Bataan began.
From the very beginning, Bataan men were cut to 1/2 rations, and very soon, to 1/4 rations. About four weeks later, they were living on 1/8 rations, that is, when food was available to them. Towards the end, it was changed to 1/16th of their rations...Quite often, they would go several days with no food, unless they could catch something in the jungle." Source: Federico Baldassarre letter
In the wake of starvation came diseases, such as malaria, dengue, scurvy, beriberi and amebic dysentery. The average American soldier lost 15-25 pounds and malaria was as high as 35 percent among front line units.
On Good Friday, 03 April 1942, General Homma, with the addition of fresh troops, began an all-out offensive on Bataan. By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, Major General Edward P. King, commander of the forces on Bataan, was convinced his troops could not physically resist any more and decided to surrender to prevent further loss of life. On 09 April 1942, Maj. Gen. King surrendered the Luzon Force to the Japanese. Before the surrender the men of the 454th were ordered to destroy their guns and disable their trucks so that the Japanese couldn't use them.
After hearing of the surrender, General Wainwright on Corregidor sent a cable to President Roosevelt, stating "I have done all that could have been done to hold Bataan, but starved men without air support and with inadequate field artillery support cannot endure the terrific aerial and artillery bombardment that my troops were subjected to."
Private Arthur M. Arnone along with 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese, were subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March. When the Fil-American soldiers began the Death March they were in terrible physical condition. For 6 to 9 days (depending on their starting point) they were forced to walk the roughly sixty-five miles to San Fernando, enduring abuse by Japanese guards and seeing the deaths of thousands of fellow soldiers. At San Fernando, the Japanese stuffed about 100 men into steel-sided boxcars for the twenty-five-mile trip to Capas. The scorching hot boxcars were packed so tight that the men could not even sit down. When the train arrived at Capas the POW's were offloaded and marched the final nine miles to Camp O'Donnell.
Arthur Arnone Is Missing in The Philippines
Eckhart Resident Left Frostburg May, 16, 1941 as Draftee
FROSTBURG, May 24 –Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, has been notified by the War Department that his son, Arthur Arnone, is missing in the Philippines. He was serving on the Bataan peninsula with American and Philippine troops and sent a telegram to his father in December that he was well.
Young Arnone was in the second group of draftees to leave here, May 16, 1941, following the adoption of the selective service system. He is twenty-four years old and was popular in Eckhart where he conducted a barber shop and pitched on the Eckhart baseball team.
The Cumberland office of the Red Cross announced last week that it will be several months before a list of prisoners of the Japs will be available.
Arnone is the first resident of Eckhart listed as missing. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 25 May 1942, page 7.
On 01 June 1942 Private Arnone was stricken with dysentery while a prisoner in Camp O'Donnell.
Surviving the brutal treatment by the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell (about 1500 American and 22,000 Filipino prisoners of war died in just three months) Private Arnone was transferred to the Cabanatuan POW Camp No. 1, approximately 8 kilometers east of the town by the same name.
In early June of 1942, prisoners from Camp O'Donnell began to stream into Camp No. 1, joining the men captured on Corregidor. Most of the POWs were assigned to work details and farm labor. Because of the poor health of the men from O'Donnell, the death rate at Camp #1 soared.
Private Arthur M. Arnone age 24, (S/N 33061872), Ordnance Department, died at 8:00 am on 01 October 1942, while being treated for dysentery in the prison hospital, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121. He was one of eight men to die that day. By the time the camp was liberated on 30 January 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men who were captured on Bataan. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs who died that day.
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Private Arnone was listed as missing in action after the fall of Bataan.
September 1942 – Joseph Arnone, Eckhart, received word that his son, Pvt. Arthur Arnone, who was with the U.S. Army at Bataan, is still missing, but the communication from the Red Cross, stated that his name is not among the list of the dead. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Monday, 14 September 1942, page 9.
Official word that he was a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp was received by his family on 17 April 1943. Sadly Arthur was already dead.
Die in Jap Prison
Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman; Pvt. Arthur M. Arnone
The deaths of two Allegany county soldiers in Japanese prison camps have been reported by the War Department. They are Pvt. Franklin P. Lehman, 27, this city, and Pvt. Arthur Michael Arnone, 25, of Eckhart.
Messages confirming their deaths were received on July 4 by Mrs. Joseph Wagner, 115 Maple street, sister of Pvt. Lehman, and by Joseph Arnone, father of Pvt. Arnone.
Before his induction in the spring of 1941, Pvt. Lehman was manager of the American Store at Central and Maryland avenues. Pvt. Arnone was in the second group of draftees leaving Frostburg on May 16, 1941. Both fell into enemy hands when the Philippines capitulated early in 1942.
The last letter received from Pvt. Lehman was dated November 1, 1941, the day of his embarkation at San Francisco. He was reported a prisoner of the Japanese by the War Department on January 29, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone's capture was confirmed on April 17, 1943.
Pvt. Arnone attended Eckhart elementary school and Beall high school where he played on the baseball team. Prior to his induction he was a barber. Word was received through the International Red Cross Sunday that the soldier had died *June 29, 1943.
*He had died on 01 October 1942
Besides his father, he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Anthony Inglese, Chicago; Miss Mary Arnone; and Miss Olimpia Arnone, Eckhart; four brothers, Pvt. Claude Arnone, Fort Myer, Va.; Minotti Arnone, Enordo Arnone, Eckhart, and Orient Arnone, Chicago.
Because of his son being reported missing in action, Mr. Arnone was given the honor of unveiling the Eckhart honor plaque on Sunday, June 13. It was then stated that young Arnone had been a prisoner since the battle of Bataan. After he had been reported missing in action, his father did not hear from him for over a year until last May when he was reported a prisoner. In the meantime the family have given him up as lost in action. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 07 July 1943, page 9.
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After the war his remains were recovered and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands – Block 2, Row 24, Grave 3033 (D-D 633). The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948. From there, according to the wishes of his next of kin (father, Mr. Joseph Arnone) Private Arthur Michael Arnone was buried in his final resting place in the 7701 Ft. McKinley Cemetery (now known as the Manila American Cemetery) – Plot E, Row 1, Grave 8.
In September 1946 the newly formed American Legion's Post in Eckhart was named in his honor – Arthur Arnone Post No. 212. He was the first soldier from Eckhart to die in World War II.
