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Lf. MacDowell Reports to Hot Springs/Ark.Lt. Matthew MacDowell of 612 South 21st avenue, Maywood, left Saturday for Hot Surings, Ark.,to report for reassignment, following completion of a 90-dayPage 20 The HERALDThursday, November 1. 1945temporary duty assignment at home.Lt. MacDowell, a member of the 192nd Tank Battalion which fell to the Japs in the Philippines, was the first Maywood prisoner liberated from the prison camp in Manila. He was graduated from Proviso high school in 1931.Helped Occupy Northern JapanWillard M. Swinson, cook, 2/e, 133 South 11th avenue, Maywood, took part in the occupation of northern Japan with the crew of the destroyer escort U.S.S. Stock-dale.A veteran of 18 months’ war-’ fare in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, the Stockdale was one of the first American warships to take part in occupation of the northern area of the Japanese homeland.The Stockdale reached Japanese water in time to operate with a carrier task group covering the initial penetration of Tsugaru strait, which separates the islands of Honshu and Kokkaido, and anchored at Ominato the day after Jap admirals had surrendered that naval base.Lt. Matthew MacDowell
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Bellwood Proviso Township Herald
Bellwood, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 01, 1945
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