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
 
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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, 24th Pursuit Group, Interceptor

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24th Pursuit Group, Interceptor
Greeley, Horace John, Maj, (1937-1945) A23 AAF MOS 1063 Major
Sloan, Raymond Anderson, Capt, (1939-1942) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Captain
Anderson, Marshall Judson, 1st Lt, (1939-1942) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Brown, Everett Sherrill, 1st Lt, (1939-1944) First Lieutenant
Burns, John Patterson, 1st Lt, (1940-1942) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Church, Russell Morse, 1st Lt, (1939-1941) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Dyess, William Edwin, Lt Col, (1937-1943) First Lieutenant
Kruzel, Joseph John, Maj Gen, (1940-1970) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Mahony, Grant, Lt Col, (1939-1945) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Marett, Samuel Heins, 1st Lt, (1939-1941) 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
Posten, John Herbert, Lt Col, (1940-1962) Second Lieutenant
Stone, Earl Reynolds, 2nd Lt, (1940-1942) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Second Lieutenant
Holeman, David Emery, SSgt, (1941-1942) Staff Sergeant
Arguello, Robert Eugene, T3G, (1940-1942) 00 Technician 3rd Grade
Batson, Jack H., SSgt, (1937-1942) Staff Sergeant
Covey, Hershel, SSgt, (1933-1942) A07 AAF MOS 750 Staff Sergeant
Covey, Hershel Lee, SSgt, (1933-1942) Staff Sergeant
Hainer, William, SSgt, (1939-1942) Staff Sergeant
King, Harold, SSgt, (1936-1942) Staff Sergeant
Loesche, Karl R., SSgt, (1941-1942) 990 99016E Staff Sergeant
Alter, Jack Sample, T4G, (1940-1942) Technician 4th Grade
Bergman, John C., T4G, (1940-1942) Technician 4th Grade
Bahr, Don J, Sgt, (1939-1942) Sergeant
Fritz, Wendell J., Sgt, (1940-1943) A07 AAF MOS 750 Sergeant
Graves, Jasper E, Sgt, (1940-1942) Sergeant
Balfour, Weston David, Cpl, (1941-1944) A01 AAF MOS 505 Technician 5th Grade
Anderson, Lloyd Halleck, Cpl, (1940-1942) Corporal
Idlett, George Douglas, SSgt, (1940-1946) Corporal
Neiberger, Victor D., Cpl, (1940-1942) Corporal
Akers, Earl Kenneth, PFC, (1939-1942) Private First Class
Althaus, Keith Charles, PFC, (1940-1942) Private First Class
Boulton, Jacque S., PFC, (1941-1942) Private First Class
Flanary, Robert Rienzi, PFC, (1941-1942) Private First Class
Marlow, Linus B., CWO4, (1940-1966) Private First Class
Betz, Ralph Arthur, Pvt, (1941-1942) Private
Brazeau, Francis N., Pvt, (1940-1942) Private
Douglass, Fred Allen, Cpl, (1940-1946) A17 AAF MOS 657 Private
Gilliland, Donald M., Pvt, (1941-1942) Private

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