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Hebron Man, Held By Japs •3 Years. Freeft.[se*.| i-iadi-ilrici-dnie)YIsa11 i Pfc. Joseph Twa, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Corregidor, is a free man after over three years spent in Japanese prison camps.This was the word received Saturday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Twa, of Hebron RFD 1*Pfc. Twa was liberated on Sept. 11 last from a POW camp at Ose-ka, Japan, according to the notification.Enlisting on March, 14, 1941, he | was sent to Fort Benjamin Harri-son, Indianapolis, where he served with the Armored Force Replacement Center. On March 26, 1941 he was transferred to Fort Knox. Ky. From there he was sent toCamp Polk, La., in June, 1941. On Oct. 14, 1941, he joined up with the j 192nd Tank Battalion from Fort d j Knox, leaving Oct. 27, 1941, for the Philippines.In June, 1942. the parents received word from the War Department he was a prisoner of war in the Philippines. From 1942 until June, 1945, the parents received j only three cards through the Im-e perial Japanese army, the last on June 23, 1945, informing he was a prisoner of war at Oseka.He was returned to military control following his liberation and is being returned to the United States in the near future, the war department said.•Ir i irit niI.o•yirl-s.
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Valparaiso Vidette Messenger
Valparaiso, Indiana, US
Mon, Sep 24, 1945
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