Ruse, Carl Robert, Cpl

Deceased
 
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Last Rank
Corporal
Primary Unit
1942-1945, Status - POW/MIA
Service Years
1941 - 1945
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Home State
Illinois
Illinois
Year of Birth
1914
 
This Military Service Page was created/owned by SSgt Robert Bruce McClelland, Jr. to remember Ruse, Carl Robert (POW), Cpl.

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Contact Info
Home Town
Odessa, Texas
Last Address
Odessa, Texas
Date of Passing
Oct 24, 2003
 
Location of Interment
Sunset Memorial Gardens - Odessa, Texas
Wall/Plot Coordinates
Fountain 571 1

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Last Known Activity:

He survived 3 years and 4 months of brutal treatment as a POW in the Philippines and Japan, including the Bataan Death March and an extremely long journey on one of the "hell ships".
His photos show him as a POW in 1944 and after repatriation and recuperation in 1945.

   
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Sources: 
Book: "We Volunteered", A Biography of Carl Robert Ruse, Survivor of the Bataan Death March and Prisoner of the Japanese 1942-1945, by Timothy C. Ruse, 2010.
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  1941-1942, 21st Pursuit Squadron, Interceptor

Private First Class
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Unit
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Rank
Private First Class
AFSC/MOS
Not Specified
Base, Station or City
Not Specified
State/Country
Philippines
   
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 21st Pursuit Squadron, Interceptor Details

21st Pursuit Squadron, Interceptor
Type
Fighter
 
Parent Unit
Pursuit Units
Strength
Squadron
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Last Updated: Feb 26, 2020
   
   
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10 Members Also There at Same Time
21st Pursuit Squadron, Interceptor

Burns, John Patterson, 1st Lt, (1940-1942) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Dyess, William Edwin, Lt Col, (1937-1943) First Lieutenant
Dyess, William Edwin, Lt Col, (1937-1943) First Lieutenant
Handy, Oscar, 1st Lt, (1940-1942) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Donalson, I. B. Jack, Col, (1941-1968) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Second Lieutenant
Grashio, Samuel Charles, Col, (1940-1965) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Second Lieutenant
Batson, Jack H., SSgt, (1937-1942) Staff Sergeant
King, Harold, SSgt, (1936-1942) Staff Sergeant
Flanary, Robert Rienzi, PFC, (1941-1942) Private First Class
Douglass, Fred Allen, Cpl, (1940-1946) A17 AAF MOS 657 Private
Flake, Charles, Pvt, (1940-1942) Private

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