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Local Men Survive War Exp eriencesAfter surviving hazardous war experiences, two West side men havp returned to the United States, on* to Mare island navy .vard at San Francisco. and the other to Treasure Island at San Francisco.Joseph Valton Calkins, seaman first class, son of Mrs. Wilma Calkins. 33fl N. Hamlin ave., was one of eight men returned to Mare island after surviving the horrors of Jap imprisonment at. j Bilibid and Cabanntuan. Each of the eleht had lost a limb during j the seiges of Bataan and Correg-idor.Calkins wore an artificial legj he made himself durine the long1 years of Imprisonment, but he threw It into San Francisco bay as the ship steamed into the harbor. knouine he will be supplied with a scientific one made to his measurements.chael J. Phelan. 4836 W. Gladys ave.. arrived at Treasure island, one of more than 120 survivorsfrom Philippine invasion vessels, and was then home for a leave. He had served on a minesweeper that had been sunk by enemy action in the Invasion of Bataan peninsula on Feb. 14. The ship was sunk by Japanese shore batteries on Bataan and had been hit at least eight timei before she was finally finished off by a U. S. destroyer.Phelan, one of the two crew members not wounded in the action, was in the water for three hours, his mother stated. He had served in the navy exactly one year to the day he reported back sfter his leave. A brother. T 5 Patrick Phelan, who has been in the army for four years, Is serv-inc In Germany. He has been overseas a year. Both are graduates of Resurrection and St. Philip High schools.Captain On Leave Is Going OverseasHis brother. Norman, Is now Inthe Philippine';. where he startedwith th* expressed intention of rescuing Joseph., Capt. Harold Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Green, 4207 Gladys ave.. is on leave from Atlantic City. Captain Green experts to go overseas soon aftfcr his leave He has been In theHarold J Phelan, seaman first service more than four years and class, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ml- j hns been serving as a quarter-a «1
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Chicago Garfieldian
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, May 17, 1945
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