Paul D. (Paul Delmont) Bunker

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Paul D. (Paul Delmont) Bunker

1881–1943

Best remembered as a West Point football star and career Army officer, he also left behind a vivid firsthand record of service in the Philippines during World War II. His writing carries the weight of lived experience, shaped by discipline, hardship, and endurance.

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Post Exchange Methods A Manual for Exchange Stewards, Exchange Officers, Members of Exchange Councils, Commanding Officers, Being an Exposition of a Simple and Efficient System of Accounting Which Is Applicable to Large and to Small Exchanges Alike.

Post Exchange Methods A Manual for Exchange Stewards, Exchange Officers, Members of Exchange Councils, Commanding Officers, Being an Exposition of a Simple and Efficient System of Accounting Which Is Applicable to Large and to Small Exchanges Alike.

by Paul D. (Paul Delmont) Bunker

About the author

Paul Delmont Bunker was born on May 7, 1881, in Michigan and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He first became widely known as a standout football player, earning All-American honors and becoming one of the early stars of Army football.

He went on to a long Army career that spanned more than four decades. During World War II he served in the Philippines as a colonel in the Coast Artillery, and after the fall of Corregidor he was held as a prisoner of war. He died in captivity on March 16, 1943.

Bunker is remembered not only for his military and athletic career, but also for the diary associated with his final wartime service, later published as Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Col. Paul D. Bunker. That record gives his work an unusual immediacy, offering readers a personal window into duty, survival, and the human cost of war.