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Chapman University Chapman University Digital Commons Joseph DeHaan Korean War correspondence CAWL Archives: The Korean War 1951 Undated, clipping, Pfc. Jos. DeHaan Joseph DeHaan Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/jdehaan_correspondence Recommended Citation DeHaan, Joseph, "Undated, clipping, Pfc. Jos. DeHaan" (1951). Joseph DeHaan Korean War correspondence. 157. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/jdehaan_correspondence/157 This Ephemera is brought to you for free and open access by the CAWL Archives: The Korean War at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Joseph DeHaan Korean War correspondence by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact laughtin@chapman.edu. f c. Jos. DeBaait, Sgt. Lndger Longtil ~isled as Prisoners by Communists i I Two Red Lake Falls soldiers were among the 3,198 American prisoners listed by the Communists this week. They are Sgt. Ludger Longtin, who was known to be a prisoner since July 30, and Pfc. Joseph De-Haan, son of Mrs. John DeHaan, who has been missing in action since May 18 of this year. Two telegrams from the Penta-gon to the Longtins and Mrs. De-Haan arrived Wednesday bearing the good news. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Longtin also received another let-ter from their son Tuesday, the 'third that has come since he was made prisoner in the fall of 1950. Pfc. DeHaan is a prisoner in the Chiang-Song camp while Sgt. Lon-tin is being held at Pyok-Dong-both camps being in North Korea along the Manchurian border. • Pfc. Joseph DeHaan arrived' in ~-ea just a year before word of ~ capture came through Wednes.-"""""'~----------..!.-.... ;....,._ i1 &.y. The 21-year-old army man enlisted in April', 1949, and arrived 1llt Korea in February of this year. Serving in the Second Infantry •-vision, DeHaan has been missing in action since May 18. No word of his fate had been received until the an-nouncement of the lists this week. The daily newspapers and radio carried the names of both men earlier this week. Sgt. Ludger Longtin, also a mem-ber Of the Second Infanty division, , has been in Korea since September, 1950, and was reported missing in action just two months later when the Chinese breakthrough came. It wasn't until July of last sum-mer that word came through in the cnn of two letters from Ludger ten from a prison camp. He re-po?1ed he and his friends were be-.mg treated quite well. Both letters were published by the Gazette at the-.time. Sgt. Lon,gtin, 27, is ;;, 1942 gradu-ate of - Pershing high school at Plummer and served in World War II from February 1943 until Janu-ary of 1946, mostly in the far east• ern theatres of Guam and Philip-pines. He re-enlisted in April 1948 ar.d was sent to Guam. Longtin is a member of Headquarters Co. of the 2nd Engineering Battalion and operated bulldozers and heavy re<itlii!mlent. Jr~ was last home in the fall of ltHf f furlough. Three br of Sgt. Longtin a.re also in the ,&11Jl-ed forces. Clarence and Jerome a halif: rother, are both station Tokyo while George is at cCoy, Wis. Whne the news was go-0ct for"Kt-. and Mrs. Leo Longtin and Mrs. John DeHaan, some 9,000 Ameri-cans who are listed as missing by our military headquarters, have not been reported by the Communists. The news this week was not good for the :oarents. relatives and 

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