DONALD F. INGLE, received the Distinguished Service Cross for his extraordinary heroism in the defense of Bataan and while a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. A radio operator with the 31st Infantry Regiment, Mr. Ingle became a prisoner at the fall of Bataan and survived the infamous death march which took a heavy toll amongst those who were forced into captivity on 8 April 1942. After imprisonment in several POW camps in the Philippines, Mr. Ingle was finally liberated in Japan in September, 1945.

NOTE: Companion Ingle has described his World War II experiences in a volume entitled “Fall Forward, My Son”, a graphic account of what happened to him and to many others after the fall of the Philippines.

Mr. Ingle joined the Legion of Valor in 1946 and resided in Southern California.