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ILEOsiaDeath Presumably Occurred As Yanks Returned To Capture Philippines.Sn;Sidsr-Months of suspense over the welfare of Sgt, Carroll F. Spindler, 26, have ended with an official war notice just received by bis mother, Mrs. Marie Spindler, 31? So Kansas street, that he was '‘killed in action while a prisoner of the Japanese government on Dec. 14,1944.” Relatives believe he lost his life in connection with Gen. MacArthur’s invasion of the Philippine Islands last winter.Absence of prison cards from the soldier for several months addedto the fears of relatives that he had either died or been killed. The Iasi card was received in May, 1945 but was undated. It may have been written six or eight months before arrival here.The War Department notice states that a letter will follow and Mrs. Spindler anticipates Ihut it will contain greater details. Members of the family hoped that after the Japanese captured the islands Spindler had been removed to one of the other prison camps.It was six years ago on Labor Day that Spindler volunteered, enlisting in the Air Coips. He was sent to Chunuie Field at Rantoul. 111. Three months earlier in June he had graduated from Lhe high school here. He was trained to be a radio operator and repairman and within a few weeks after his enlistment was sent to the Philippines.During his early days in the Orient he was stationed at Nichols Feld at Manila but was transferred to Clark Field after it was developed. Spindler had been in the Philippines for about two years before Pearl Harbor, serving as a member of the force of Yanks finally surrendering to superior ene-CContmueft on Page Two)tiP
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Edwardsville Intelligencer
Edwardsville, Illinois, US
Tue, Sep 04, 1945
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