Archive Spotlight: Col Paul Bunker

By Kevin Fitzpatrick 5/31/25

Colonel Paul Delmont Bunker was a West Point football star, a 40-year U.S. Army veteran, and the first member of The Lambs to die in WWII. He died of starvation and disease in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in 1943 after losing 70 pounds. Col. Bunker famously hid a scrap of the U.S. flag while a POW that was secretly handed over to a fellow prisoner on his deathbed. It’s in the West Point museum. Read about this hero here.