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1Brothers Come HomeO’BRIEN BOYSARE RETURNEDFOR INTERMENTMilitary Funeral Services Are Scheduled For Brothers Who Died In WarDouble funeral services for T/4 James O’Brien and Pfc. Ralph ! O’Brien, Port Clinton servicemen who died in World War II, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Pat O'Brien, 517 ! West Fifth street, will be held at St. John Lutheran church at 2 p. m. Saturday. The Rev. John Braun will officiate.T-4 James O’BrienDIED IN PHILIPPINESPfc. Ralph O’BrienKILLED IN GERMANY1,252 YOUTHS REGISTER HEREFOR SERVICEBoard Begins Sending Out Questionnaires To t pper Age-GroupsApproximately 1,252 young men have registered at the Ottawa County selective service board, it was announced Wednesday. Thirty-five questionnaires, to registrants in the single, non-father, non-veteran group, were sent out as of Wednesday morning, it was reported.Registration began Wednesday morning for 19-year-olds and continued through Thursday. Friday and Saturday men in the age-group born September 19, 1930, will register. Board officials emit will be a military funeral, with groups from the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and Gold Star Mother's present.Interment will be in Riverview cemetery with the J. A. Neideck-er company directing. The bodies of the brothers were scheduled to arrive here by train Thursday afternoon. According to War Department procedure, a special request of the parents, the bodies were to arrive at the same time for joint burial.T/4 James O’Brien, 19, was a member of the ill-fated Port Clinton Tank company. He died of malnutrition and dysentery in Ca-taban, Philippine Islands, prison camp, on June 30, 1942.Born in Schofield Barracks, Oahu, T. H., on July 15, 1923, while his father was stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, Jim was captured with other local heroes during the fall of Bataan. When another local man collapsed during the Bataan Death March, Jim carried the sick buddy for several miles. His body was returned from Manila cemetery. O’Brien had quit school in his senior year to join the Tank company.Pfc. Ralph O’Brien was born October 17, 1924, in this city. He attended local schools and was employed by the U. S. Gypsum company before entering service on Dec. 19. 1942.During his early military career, Ralph was a member of the paratroopers. During this phase, he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, Fort Bennlng, Ga., and Camp Pickett, Virginia. Twice he escaped death, once when several other soldiers were killed in the same train car in which he was riding and later when his parachute tangled and failed to open fast enough. Ralph’s leg was broken in this jump, and he was “washed out” of the paratroopers and transferred to the field artillery.He went overseas in October, 1944, and had been in Europe only two months when he was killed on December 11, 1944. A member of the 308th Field Artillery Bn., Ralph was killed instantly when German planes dive bombed and straffed Lammersdorf, Germany. He was buried at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.Survivors besides the parents include three brothers, William and George, Sandusky, and Pat, Jr., of Port Clinton.rhA«!7.Ml that thn draft law nro-
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Ottawa County News
Port Clinton, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 17, 1948
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