Paul A. Munden

Headquarters Company

Private

Born Oct. 15, 1895 Died May 29, 1946

Buried: Los Angeles National Cemetery    101-9 Row A

 

A story about Paul Munden was recounted on Page 64 and 65 in With the 364th Infantry in America, France, and Belgium by Bryant Wilson and Lamar Tooze:

 

"Private Munden was the only man from the regiment taken prisoner by the Germans in either the Argonne or Flanders battles. He was captured the night of September 26-27^th while out with a reconnoitering patrol of the Thirty-seventh Division, having become lost from his company during the day. The patrol was fired upon by two concealed German Machine guns, Munden’s comrades being either killed or wounded. Munden took cover in a shell-hole but was afterward discovered by the Germans, captured, and taken to Regimental Headquarters from where he was sent to the Brigade Headquarters of the Fifth Prussian Guards. Here he was subjected to strenuous questioning by German intelligence men, without result. While in Sedan, Munden saw fourteen trains, each on an average of sixty cars in length, laden with wounded Germans. With other Americans, he was taken to a prison camp, at Rastatt, Germany, where he remained until the signing of the armistice."