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JANIEFROMOREGON@webtv.net 

Posted to Payne Co. OK Archives 1/06/2002

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Submitted by: Janie Luster, e-mail: janiefromoregon@webtv.net



I found this newspaper clipping dated June 3rd, 1945 in my grandmothers momentos and 

thought maybe it could help someone.

"T.G. Haskett died while being held by Japs"

Mrs Dora Petrie, 721 West Tenth Ave received a letter from General MacArthur Friday,

informing her that her son, Cpl. Thomas G. Haskett, died while a prisoner of war of the 

Japanese following the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. The clipping goes onto to say that 

Corporal Haskett was born April 6, 1915, and was reared in and near Stillwater 

Oklahoma (Payne county) He entered the army in 1938 in California. He served three 

years then was sent to his base in Manila. His mother had not heard directly from him 

since the Japanese invasion of the Phillipine Islands. He has been listed as missing in 

action. Haskett's father, Jim Haskett makes his home in California. He is also survived 

by two brothers, Guy Haskett of Vallejo, Calif. and Walter Haskett of Rodeo, Calif., and 

two sisters, Mrs Roy Edwards and Mrs Eldon Sims, both of Stillwater.

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