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EPUBLICAN-COURIER, FINDLAY, OHIO, MONDAY M0RNIN8, MAY 21, Am®LT. DAI FULLERTHE OLD HOME TOWNBy STANLEYAerial Navigator Writes of | Liberation: Expects to1 Be Home SoonFir?! Lieutenant David P Fuller son of Mr and Mrs Robert E Fuller. 427 central avenue. has been 1 iterated ttom a German prison «amp and expects to arrive home soon.This was the word contained in a letter received from him saturdav. the m: he had been heard from sun e a ie'ter which he wrote last Dec 27. The let-;er was brief but updated to in* Uica-e he was ad tight.Twenty-one oars old in April. Lieutenant FiuU;- .!.it re would have a iot of experiences to relate when he get- home and partieu.arlv he ha- formed some impresion- of the German people. he says.He said he would tell about the Ions march from Stalas I.utt 3 prison camp in Siicsia when the Russians pressed too close early this year. Also he sav he will ted about the march fromNuremburg on hi- wav to Moo-burst where he finally was released.His parents hove had littleword from his since he \wi« taken prisoner by the Germans after his ship was forced down near Maguehcrg ia.-t Mav ;td, Hut they have learned a tew details fromVanlue Native Three Years InJapanese Prison, Visits Hererelatives of oth.ej* soUlierlt; which1they*believe applied equally to their son. They have learned that the men held at Stalag Luft 3 were man bed out on Jan 27 and kept going until some time the next day before they had time to rest. On the third dav thev were loaded on trains and taken to Nuremburg Later they were moved again bv a some-what similar procedure from Nu. remburg to.Moosburg. Lieutenant _Fulier._ who was acarrier for : Ft e Re pub 1 i eanr-Unnrv icr hefnrp he entered service wa«jtrained as an aerial navigator He went to 17ngland in March, in 14. and had flown l'1 missions over Germany in a H-17 bomber before he was taken prisoner.iN o r t h we?tY Officials to%Convene TbursdavO o oROY D BENNETT, Vanlue na-, live who for three years was I a prisoner in the Santo Tomas Japanese prison In Manila, ar ! rivelt;l in Findlay for a brief visit! with his sister, Mrs. Nora Fet-i ters. 313 East Hardin street. * Mrs. Bennett, his wife and. children and their families con-! stituted 26 of the 5,000 who ar*; rived in Los Angeles recently I from the Manila prison camp.; The Red Cross took care of the whole number for a week fol-: low ing their arrival in San Fran-j cisco, fed and clothed each one,' and helped him get to his destination. In most cases the people1 were penniless and ill-clothed.A number of the men who iiad_hc.cn In the employ of vart-: ous American companies in Manila were taken over by their companies when they arrived in, the United States. !Mr, Bennett taught school near Vanlue till he went to Ma nila 35 years ago Intending to devote his life to the education profession in the islands. He married there and eventually be-;! A Y. M C. A conference of ! associations in northwestern Ohio will be hold at the Findlay . *Y' Thursday. An a 11-dav sessioniwill be held, beginning at ID a. m. and closing at 0 p. in. j The meeting is one of a num-: her of similar meetings being'he’d throughout the country inplace of the national meeting of ‘ ‘Y’ secretaries which will not beDIES IN TOLEDOFuneral to Be Held HereAftTuesday Afternoon forAnna Mary BrownMiss Anna Marv Brown. 71. i3 0came vice president of the Philippine Education company, a publishing house. Before they were driven out of Manila onlya few months ago. the Japanese destroyed much of the bus I he** section of the city and the pub lishing house was left a mass o(rubble.Because hi? wife was Philip-pine-born, she and their children were not internet! by the Jap an esc, but Mr. Bennett was imprisoned by the invaders early in 11M2- His wife was permitted to visit him from time to time but she and all other member* of their family continued to live in their homes in the city till the Americans began to press the cifv last faTr~Tflen Mrs Bennett and all other American member? of the family had to flee to the country, remaining there till the Americans had freed the city oi the Japanese.Of all the Bennett family only one member lost his life, a son in-law, John Bellicier, who me I death by a Japanese bullet dur ing the exodus of the family from the city last fall. Mr. Belli tier and his wife, the formei Miss Bennett, visited relatives it Findlay several years ago.Also helping his sister. Mr? Fetters, to celebrate her 81 si birthday Tuesday. Mr. Ben net1 will leave Tuesday night for Nnr walk for a short visit with hh brother, Harry Bennett. Aftei that he will go on to New York on business. Eventually he ex pects to return to the Philip pine*. Hi* wife »nd family an remaining in California Uurinj his visit here.
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Mon, May 21, 1945
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