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ISinshislidsicir-is-ill?k,?r-heFred Jannisch, Jr.Dies in JapanesePrison Campasleje,w-u-atidthLIA:id.Ci3n-n-mmn-nt-it:h)FcofnedaScwifaideiITS; Salt;CpI. Fred Jannisch, Jr., died on °* June 29 at a Japanese prison camp T in the Philippine Islands, his ^ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jannisch, of 333 Park, have been in-formed by the war department. w Cause .of the deafh is not given. ^CpI. Jannisch was a member of the Maywood Tank company and was taken by the Japanese when ~ Bataan fell. When the Japanese * attacked Clark field, he was stationed at Fort Stotsenburg, near- j by, and his company used tank5 artillery as anti-aircraft guns, shooting down many Japanese planes.Later he was with the group that retreated to Bataan, fighting until food and supplies gave out. His last letter, written February 24, 1942, told of the ingenuity of the army’s cooks inpreparing rice three times a dayin such manner as to make it palatable. There was, he told his parents, “nothing to worry about. the letter was delieered in August, nearly six months latei and evidently had been rescued from the ocean.Since then, the InternationalRed Cross has established contact with the group with which Cpl. Jannisch had been Imprisoned, and his parents have written regularly.There is no way of knowing whether he ever received their letters.Cpl. Jannisch enlisted in the I hei ... Maywood Tank company, then a in ^ National Guard unit, on October bui 25, 1940, his eighteenth birthday.A short time later, the National Guard was federalized, and he obtained a release from Oak Park High school, where he was com-»t pleting his senior year, in orderto go with the unit to Fort Knoxto begin training.jFT25mis?ole=sn*es-■EJelt;diein|]Brcaiset118(V«rsy His last furlough was in thei-i-fall of 1941, shortly before his birthday. Then he was sent with £ his unit into the Pacific area, and was soon in the active fighting.Cpl. Jannisch was a carrier boy for this newspaper, he was active in Boy Scout work, as a member of Troop 15. \ JBesides his parents;ifwo younger sisters, Dorothy and Helen, survive.fintoBnwhodikoiancsheforancwhhas£tellest:Eult;tra:Oliwhlt;meiS
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Oak Park Oak Leaves
Oak Park, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 08, 1943
Page 22
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