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.......... ■■■■' ■■ ■ s pLiberated FromPrison Camp, Is Expected Homel!ShPFC FRANK JOLLIFFAFTER three months in a German prison camp. PFC Frank Joliiff, of Arlington, was releasedAprii 16 and is expected to arrive home at any time now.He was reported missing on Jtn~3~ and later it was learned he was taken prisoner by the Germans on Jan. 1. After that he was not again heard from till ten days ago when a letter to his wife announced he had been liberated on April 16 and expected to be home “before too long.'*His wife and 4-year-oid son and his mother, Mrs. Jessie Joliiff, reside in Arlington.Ensign Dick Wilson Officer Aboard Battleship Hit By Jap BombEnsign Dick G. Wilson, son of 1 Mr. and Mrs. Karl H. Wilson.500 West Sandusky street, was jan officer aboard the U. S. battleship New' Mexico, which the t navy department announced ■lt; Saturday as having been hit by 11 a Japanese bomb in Lingaven 11 gulf, Philippines Islands, Jan. 6 cMr. and Mrs. Wilson had; * known for some time of the in* j -cident, their son having written'' them telling them to read a certain page in an issue of Time. 1 The magazine, however, did not i lt;divulge the name of the ship. ■ *Thirty men were killed when •1 the ship was hit by the bomb.! including the commanding offi-;} cer, Capt. Robert W. Fleming. Alexandria, Va., and William r Chickering. a correspondent of I Time magazine. ;fUntil the Lingayen beaches!1 were secure five days later, the * New Mexico remained on the ' job to complete her scheduled ^ bombardment of enemy shore * positions and then returned to!Pearl Harbor for repairs. jWithin a month she tolt;3k to: sea again and has rejoined the!1 fleet. | JEnsign Wilson was junior off! j1 cer in charge of radar opera- j Uons. A graduate of Findlay]:high school with the class of],1940 he attended Ohio Wesleyan-;, university but before complete? ing his course, he entered the ,Annapolis naval academy. i
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Mon, May 21, 1945
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