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5 Bataan V etsHeld in JapanAt least live San Antonio army officers who were captured on Bataan are now prisoners at Camp Fukuoka in Japan, according to war department messages to their families here.; All five were on a Jap ship which was sunk by an American submarine in Manila harbor last December 13, They managed to get to shore but were recaptured and loaded on another boat, which made the trip to Japan safely. The officers are:Bieut. Col, O. O. Wilson, whose wife lives at 233 Howard street; Maj. Roy F». Doran, whoso wife and two children reside at 754 Fulton avenue; Maj. George T. Perkins, dental corps, whose wife lives at1307 West Woodlawn avenue; Capl. Adolph Giesecke, whose wife and son reside at 323 West Gmmercy place, and CapL Chester Allan Peyton, whose wife lives at 235 West El Monte boulevard.The officers all were on the Bataan death march, and were stationed at various times at Cabana-tuan, Billbid and the Jap camps near Manila, Their wives are good friends, and have held frequent meetings in the past four years to discuss and exchange news about the Jap prison camps. * —NEW BEL RIO RECTOR SEDAEIA, Mo., July 4.—VP)—The Rev. Fordyce E. East burn has accepted the rectorship of tlie St. James Episcopal church of Dal Rio, Texas.a LUCKY TfifiER HUB fnr
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San Antonio Light

San Antonio, Texas, US

Wed, Jul 04, 1945

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