In the photo from the magazine, Nyal is the first person shown getting out of the truck. Nyal Hogan Bennett joined the Marines while living with his sister, Lorene Bennett Houston, and brother-in-law, in Denver, Colorado, in 1939. He eventually became one of the "4th China Marines" who served in Shanghai, China, for three years and was sent to the Bataan Peninsula just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. From there the 4th Marines were taken over to Corregidor where they "dug in" and got ready for the Japanese. The battle for Corregidor was one of the fiercest battles in the Pacific.
Nyal was wounded during this time and was in the hospital the very day Corregidor fell to the Japanese. He was reported as missing in action, then his status was changed when it was reported he was discharged from the hospital the same day the island was taken over by the Japanese. He was then reported a POW since he was alive when the Japanese took over. The hospital he was in was the Malinta tunnel which kept him safe from the bombings until the landing of the enemy.
After that no one remembers seeing him. He never returned home and is listed on the Tablets of the Missing in the Cemetery in Manila, Philippines. He was in the 4th Marines, "A" Co., 1st Battalion. He died unmarried. He was awarded the Bronze Star, POW Medal, Purple Heart and many other medals and ribbons. Both of his parents, Allen Ross Bennett and Maggie Maude Reeves Bennett, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, are buried at Holland Cemetery in Oklahoma, as well as his brother, John Allen Bennett, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne during World War II. His nephew, John Allen Bennett, Jr., who died of cancer, is also buried there.
In the photo from the magazine, Nyal is the first person shown getting out of the truck. Nyal Hogan Bennett joined the Marines while living with his sister, Lorene Bennett Houston, and brother-in-law, in Denver, Colorado, in 1939. He eventually became one of the "4th China Marines" who served in Shanghai, China, for three years and was sent to the Bataan Peninsula just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. From there the 4th Marines were taken over to Corregidor where they "dug in" and got ready for the Japanese. The battle for Corregidor was one of the fiercest battles in the Pacific.
Nyal was wounded during this time and was in the hospital the very day Corregidor fell to the Japanese. He was reported as missing in action, then his status was changed when it was reported he was discharged from the hospital the same day the island was taken over by the Japanese. He was then reported a POW since he was alive when the Japanese took over. The hospital he was in was the Malinta tunnel which kept him safe from the bombings until the landing of the enemy.
After that no one remembers seeing him. He never returned home and is listed on the Tablets of the Missing in the Cemetery in Manila, Philippines. He was in the 4th Marines, "A" Co., 1st Battalion. He died unmarried. He was awarded the Bronze Star, POW Medal, Purple Heart and many other medals and ribbons. Both of his parents, Allen Ross Bennett and Maggie Maude Reeves Bennett, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, are buried at Holland Cemetery in Oklahoma, as well as his brother, John Allen Bennett, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne during World War II. His nephew, John Allen Bennett, Jr., who died of cancer, is also buried there.
Gravesite Details
His body was never recovered.
Family Members
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Richard Forrest "Dick" Bennett
1910–1963
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Mary Lorene Bennett Houston
1911–1975
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James Kenneth Bennett
1913–1976
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Glen Wilson Bennett
1916–1987
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CPL Nyal Hogan Bennett
1918–1946
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John Allen Bennett
1920–1988
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Naomi Dee Bennett Tompkins
1924–2003
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George Lee Bennett
1927–1980
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Ruth Marie Bennett Post
1927–2002
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