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Old 12-05-2008, 09:06 PM   #7 (permalink)
JoniSchildgen
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Thank you for your reply.

Thank you for replying and for the information. I am just now finding out information about them. About 6 years ago I asked my cousin to go through my Grandma's (their mother) old trunk. I found some of their military papers that got me started. Even the letters sent to my Grandmother didn't give her alot of information about what had happened to Uncle Ray. You wouldn't believe the letters she had to write to prove that she was Uncle Jay's mother because of him changing his name. They both lied about their age to get into the Army because of a situation with my Grandfather and another Uncle. My Grandfather was their step father.

Thank you again. You helped me alot with the information you gave.

Joni

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Originally Posted by Kyt View Post
Welcome Joni

Losing two Uncles as POWs of the Japanese is very sad. As members of 680th Ordnance Company and 803rd Engineer Battalion respectively, they seem to have both been captured very early in the war.

I don't now whether you have already found this information:





Photographs and Memorabilia

American POWs Rescued After Shinyo Maru Sinking by USS Paddle: SubmarineSailor.com

I have a couple of books on the hellships, mentioned in the other thread, and will have look through them a little later.
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