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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. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
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Philippine Defense Medal - 2003
Name of Award Philippine Defense Medal
Year Awarded 2003
Last Updated: Aug 28, 2013
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