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Thompson, Harold Ray, EMC.
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Contact Info
Home Town Arapaho, OK
Last Address Long Beach, CA
Date of Passing Jan 06, 1961
Location of Interment Rose Hills Memorial Park - Whittier, California
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Worst Moment Harold was taken prisoner of war on Wake Island on December 23, 1941. He had been a patient in the Naval Hospital, hospitalized for appendicitus. He was first taken to a POW camp in Shanghai, China and then was put on the Nita Maru, a Japanese prison ship and taken to Osaka where he remained until Oct 1945.