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))hiolorePort Clinton ManReturns Home AndthatSUS-*omhio:ev$lied»ub-*ra-leftres-ap-mteela-on;nd-Jmre-Dra-Oiltwoandbe-JIO-To-ilso,5 red dth-i oilI bey.eve-ilieslowTells Of Jap CampIVcFserviceSt. Mi Miss av. E ficiatdgainocalonal’ith-sur-two ?£in-f to ork. lent said ork-themp-LheyPORT CLINTON, Oct 6—Sgt. Charles R. Boeshart, 30, the first member of the Port Clinton Tank Company to return home is being MISS greeted by many friends who are wot welcoming him after having been liberated from a Japanese prison camp, being a prisoner more than three years since the fall of Bataan.Sgt. Boeshart, the son of Mr. r . and Mrs. William Boeshart, here, em made the trip from Manila to « San Francisco and the Toledo airport by plane through the aid WI1 of the American Red Cross be- Ellen cause of the serious illness of his son, father who is confined to his home for * r on E. Second-st. His first day at morni home was spent with his parents ter and receiving friends, while H ’ awaiting the arrival of his wife death who is enroute here from Ken- ges tucky where she has been with vl*vpH her parents. duskSgt. Boeshart is modest in re- grGatIating some of his experiences mi. overseas, having left here with ™ the Port Clinton Tank Company d which arrived at Honolulu in „ m Manila in November, 1941 and 5’, after that time the men covered much territory and had much action until the fall of Bataan TOHT when they were taken prisoners.Of the four prison camps in ^1 which Sgt. Boeshart has been 80, rlt; held ^ a prisoner his longest stay years was in Mukclen,’ Manchuria, where much of his time was spent work- wher ing in machine shops. In other the camps he did some construction ti?, work. Food in the camps was re-ported as a scarce commodity and on a few occasions the prisoners mi were permitted to attend church. Hoi^ But very little news was received— S *.o— ffi: A ght,ti «y.from the outside world while ' 'ann°th aight.Aincamp. His health is reported asi„r * good. tijAAfter the fall of Bataan, Sgt. ^Boeshart became separated from ex^ the members of the Port Clinton the Tank Company, but later he nex* learned that Pvt. John D. Minier, sorelt; Pvt, Silas LeGrow and Charles C0°J Chaffin were also confined to ^are Camp Mukden and liberated. ^waOf the 33 members of the Port Clinton Tank Company, 20 have fieenHrepSffed as dead, Two stillmm *missing in action, two are thoughtto be prisoners and nine liberated from prisons.cxhiwortvegeBACP(tr
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Sandusky Register Star News
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 06, 1945
Page 4
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