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►tter1125iMeigs Youths Lost at Seawas Mrs.age,har-. .He Two other Meigs County soldiers, 1 the Prisoners of war in Japan since thej ; ani^l Corregidor have been de-! was)c{ared officially dead as of Oet. 24,' and according to word receivedfo]-iby their families. They are James! OffWyJie, brother of Mrs. Anna Mar-1 sur- ;garet Wylie Scott of the War Price! re.'and Rationing Board and nephew] j of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pick, Mid-! hisjdleport, and Bruno Pierotti, son of! 1M-1 Mrs. Olga Pierotti, Pomeroy,; at) Both men are presumed to have the)Io)5t their lives when an unmarked am- ship transporting Americans and am- others who were prisoners of the iere Japanese, to a new location, was an- bombed by the Allies. Also on this ship was IX. Col. Albert Miller, ifus [ Pomeroy, whose picture appears as- 'above., as It seems a strange coincidence of fate that these three Meigs jCountians should have lost their lives in this prison ship after surviving the horrors of the Japanese rs prison camps for three years.Service records of Wylie and :C|S* Pierotti as written by A. V. Howell, art- Meigs County chairman of the Ohio y War Commission will appear in an ^c* early edition of this paper.llcL ----——lo-jovi*
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Athens Sunday Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Sun, Jun 24, 1945
Page 8
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