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wirephoto.)Sgt. Durner, Tank Co. Man,Arrives Tonight; Sgt. RexVisits Citv on Week-End PassOctober, 1945, is developing into homecoming month for the Janesville unit of the 192nd Tank battalion just as November, 1940, is carried on the company's records as the farewell month for its departure fx'om Janesville.Of the 29 members of the 100-man company freed from prison camps in Japan and Manchuria since V-J day, two came homeThursday night—S/Sgt. Lewis M* Wallisch and Sgt. John C. Spencer. A third member of the unit, Sgt. Emerson Rex, arrived in the city Friday night from Vaughan General hospital, Hines, 111., for a week-end of pheasant shooting with his brother, former Sheriff Owen M. Rex.The fourth one to return tois expected a g/gg,. Durner large group ofcitizens will be on hand to greet him, including many of the mem* bers of the Tank Company Auxiliary. Sgt. Durner reached the United States Oct. 8 and has been at Letteraan hospital, San Francisco, since then.The arrival home of these four men indicates that the remaining 25 liberated from camps in JapanSGT. EMERSON REXInd., have visited him at the hospital several times, however.This was a big week for me In promotions, said Sgt.. Rex Friday night at the home of his brother, Owen M. Rex, 120 Sinclair street. “I was a private throughout the war and for my first two weeks at Vaugharf hospital. But one day this week they told me I had been promoted to corporal and the next day they said I could have sergeant's stripes.Although he dropped to 112 pounds during his year in the Philippines and the two and one-half years he spent in a prison camp at Osaka, Japan, Sgt. Rex now weighs 157 pounds, as much as he did when he left Janesville five years ago. He has picked up 15 pounds during his two weeks at Vaughan hospital, where he is kept on a special diet as part of the treatment of the after-effects of beriberi. Sgt. Rex bears several scars on his leg and one hand which resulted from lead poisoning with which he was afflicted two or three times during his long period of work In a lead mine near his prison camp, about 80 miles north of Osaka.Life “Plenty Ragged”Sgt. Rex was on the Bataan Death March together with the other Janesville Tank company men. and described it as “plenty rugged, a term he also applied to (CMtlme* «• r»n I. CM. »TO VISIT EVANSVILLEShortly after arriving in Janesville on the 8:31 train tonight, S/Sgt. Herbert Durner will be taken by'automobile to Evansville, where he and his parents lived at the time of his departure for service and where his grandmother, Mrs. A. E. Durner, still resides. He is expected to reach Evansville at 9:30 p. m. and the Evansville high school band will be out to greet him, Supt, J. C. McKenna announced.will reach the city soon, a iew are already at Vaughan hospital, according to Sgt. Rex.Two Promotions in Week Sgt. Rex arrived in the United States Sept. 15 and has been at Vaughan hospital since Oct. 5, but this is his first visit to Janesville since then. His brother from Janesville and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson-Rex Sr., -Mulberry,Elevator Strife Ties Up Hotel
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Janesville Daily Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Oct 20, 1945
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