PVT BRANNING KILLED ON JAP PRISONER SHIP
FIRST RED OAK BOY TAKEN PRISONER BY JAPS IN PACIFIC
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Branning received a message Tuesday from the war department stating that their son, Pvt. Adam Branning Jr., had been killed in action. The following is the message.
"The secretary of War deeply regret to inform you that your son, Pvt. Adam Branning, Jr., was killed in action in the Pacific area, December 15, 1944 while being transported aboard a Japanese vessel. Confirming letter follows Wits - Acting Adj General"
Mr. and Mrs. Branning received a message that their son was missing in action about 2 1/2 years ago. He was serving in the Philippines. A later message told them that he had been captured at the fall of Corregidor and was a prisoner of the Japs. From then they only received form cards through the Red Cross typewritten and checked with his signature. The last one received was early in December 1944.
Pvt. Branning left Chicago to serve his country in 1941 and was in the heavy artillery. He was never home after going in the service. He was the only Red Oak boy taken prisoner by the Japs. Sgt. Einar "Bonie" Johnson of Stanton recently reported lost in singing of a Jap prison ship in the South Chinnsen in 1944., make the only two from Montgomery County.
Pvt. Branning is surviving by his parents, two brothers, Pvt. Frank Branning, serving in Germany, Gilbert, who is employed in the shipyard at Vancouver and one sister, Mrs. Ernest Bergren of Omaha.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, July 26th, 1945, page 1
FIRST RED OAK BOY TAKEN PRISONER BY JAPS IN PACIFIC
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Branning received a message Tuesday from the war department stating that their son, Pvt. Adam Branning Jr., had been killed in action. The following is the message.
"The secretary of War deeply regret to inform you that your son, Pvt. Adam Branning, Jr., was killed in action in the Pacific area, December 15, 1944 while being transported aboard a Japanese vessel. Confirming letter follows Wits - Acting Adj General"
Mr. and Mrs. Branning received a message that their son was missing in action about 2 1/2 years ago. He was serving in the Philippines. A later message told them that he had been captured at the fall of Corregidor and was a prisoner of the Japs. From then they only received form cards through the Red Cross typewritten and checked with his signature. The last one received was early in December 1944.
Pvt. Branning left Chicago to serve his country in 1941 and was in the heavy artillery. He was never home after going in the service. He was the only Red Oak boy taken prisoner by the Japs. Sgt. Einar "Bonie" Johnson of Stanton recently reported lost in singing of a Jap prison ship in the South Chinnsen in 1944., make the only two from Montgomery County.
Pvt. Branning is surviving by his parents, two brothers, Pvt. Frank Branning, serving in Germany, Gilbert, who is employed in the shipyard at Vancouver and one sister, Mrs. Ernest Bergren of Omaha.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, July 26th, 1945, page 1
PVT BRANNING KILLED ON JAP PRISONER SHIP
FIRST RED OAK BOY TAKEN PRISONER BY JAPS IN PACIFIC
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Branning received a message Tuesday from the war department stating that their son, Pvt. Adam Branning Jr., had been killed in action. The following is the message.
"The secretary of War deeply regret to inform you that your son, Pvt. Adam Branning, Jr., was killed in action in the Pacific area, December 15, 1944 while being transported aboard a Japanese vessel. Confirming letter follows Wits - Acting Adj General"
Mr. and Mrs. Branning received a message that their son was missing in action about 2 1/2 years ago. He was serving in the Philippines. A later message told them that he had been captured at the fall of Corregidor and was a prisoner of the Japs. From then they only received form cards through the Red Cross typewritten and checked with his signature. The last one received was early in December 1944.
Pvt. Branning left Chicago to serve his country in 1941 and was in the heavy artillery. He was never home after going in the service. He was the only Red Oak boy taken prisoner by the Japs. Sgt. Einar "Bonie" Johnson of Stanton recently reported lost in singing of a Jap prison ship in the South Chinnsen in 1944., make the only two from Montgomery County.
Pvt. Branning is surviving by his parents, two brothers, Pvt. Frank Branning, serving in Germany, Gilbert, who is employed in the shipyard at Vancouver and one sister, Mrs. Ernest Bergren of Omaha.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, July 26th, 1945, page 1
FIRST RED OAK BOY TAKEN PRISONER BY JAPS IN PACIFIC
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Branning received a message Tuesday from the war department stating that their son, Pvt. Adam Branning Jr., had been killed in action. The following is the message.
"The secretary of War deeply regret to inform you that your son, Pvt. Adam Branning, Jr., was killed in action in the Pacific area, December 15, 1944 while being transported aboard a Japanese vessel. Confirming letter follows Wits - Acting Adj General"
Mr. and Mrs. Branning received a message that their son was missing in action about 2 1/2 years ago. He was serving in the Philippines. A later message told them that he had been captured at the fall of Corregidor and was a prisoner of the Japs. From then they only received form cards through the Red Cross typewritten and checked with his signature. The last one received was early in December 1944.
Pvt. Branning left Chicago to serve his country in 1941 and was in the heavy artillery. He was never home after going in the service. He was the only Red Oak boy taken prisoner by the Japs. Sgt. Einar "Bonie" Johnson of Stanton recently reported lost in singing of a Jap prison ship in the South Chinnsen in 1944., make the only two from Montgomery County.
Pvt. Branning is surviving by his parents, two brothers, Pvt. Frank Branning, serving in Germany, Gilbert, who is employed in the shipyard at Vancouver and one sister, Mrs. Ernest Bergren of Omaha.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, July 26th, 1945, page 1
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