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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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Additional Information
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. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
May / 1942
Description (Philippine Islands Campaign 7 Dec 1941 to 10 May 1942 ) A few hours after the raid on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the Philippines. Three days later Japanese troops landed on Luzon. America’s meager air power in the islands was soon destroyed. Unable to obtain reinforcements and supplies, MacArthur could do nothing more than fight a delaying action. Between 16 and 18 December the few bombing planes that remained were evacuated, by their crews, to Australia, where US air power in the Far East was to be concentrated. Other members of the air units took up arms and fought as infantrymen in the battle that ended, at Bataan and Corregidor, with the loss of the Philippines in May 1942.
