MIKE'S LETTERS
SHORT STORYFrom the PARSONS SUN no date shown
BIG DAY AT DALEY HOME WHEN 3 SONS
ONE OF WHOM HAD BEEN POW ARE HOME
FOR A VISIT WITH MOTHER AND SISTERS
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The children of Mrs. James S. Daley, 242l Main, were all home for Thanksgiving this year for the first time in several years, with the exception of a daughter, Mrs. Mary Williams, Ashland, Ky., who was unable to be here.
The crowning event was the return of Corp. Michael J. Daley, Pow since Feb. 24, l942, who reached home the day before thanksgiving.
Another son in service, corp. John Daley, radio operator in the air corps at Victorville, Calif. was granted a furlough at the time. Staff Sgt. Bernard F. Daley received his discharge Nov. l5 at Fort Leavenworth and came home immediately. Another daughter. Miss Dolores Rita Daley lives with her mother.
Corp. M. J. Daley returned to the U. S. Army hospital at Camp Carson, Colo. after spending 10 days here. He has been in service since March, 1941 first serving in the field artillery. After Pearl Harbor when the army was out of guns and ammunition he was transferred to the air corps, where he served as a gunner on a Fortress.
He was taken prisoner by the Japs when his plane was shot down in the hills of Java, Feb. 24, l942. He walked out of a prison camp Sept. 16, 1945, after the Japs surrendered and worked his way to the American lines. He was a member of the Lost Battalion. He is wearing the Presidential citation with 2 oak leaf clusters, 4 battles stars, and the Philippine campaign ribbon, pre pearl harbor ribbon, defense of the Philippine ribbon, Asiatic theater ribbon, good conduct ribbon and the regulation ribbons. He prefers not to talk about his treatment while a prisoner.
Staff Sgt B. F. Daley served 38 months in the African theater and middle East. He has been in service since May 1942.
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From the PARSONS SUN no date shown
22-YEAR TERM TO JAP CAMP CHIEF
Nobuhiro Miyakawa, civilian guard at the Japanese prisoner of war camp at Hokkaido, Japan, has been convicted of perpetrating war crimes against prisoners and has been sentenced to 22 years imprisonment at hard labor.
His trial, held in Tokyo, was completed last week. Mike Daley, well-known Parsonian, was held a prisoner in the camp and was one of the prisoners listed in the complaints as having been abused by Miyakawa.
From the PARSONS SUN no date shown
A BIG DAY FOR DALEY FAMILY
It will be a real Thanksgiving tomorrow for Mrs. Mary B. Daley, 2421 Main, who will celebrate the day with five of her six children. Special guest of honor will be her son Michael J. who arrived home today after spending more than three years in a Japs prison camp.
Mike as he is better known, slipped home quietly today and hopes to spend his first Thanksgiving at home in five years without very many interruptions. All members of the family are here with the exception of one daughter Mary, who is in Ashland, Ky.
Mike was one of the first casualties from the Parsons area in the war. He was listed as "missing in action: on Java in June 1942, and since that time has been a prisoner of the Japs. He was a telephone operator with the army service of supply and was sent to Java late in 1941 shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Since his liberation he has been convalescing in an army hospital to which he will return at the end of Thanksgiving furlough.
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This from the Kansas City Star no date shown
REASON FOR THANKFULNESS
KANSAS SOLDIER MISSING SINCE
JUNE 1942, HAS REACHED HOME
PARSONS, KAS., NOV. 22.—Thanksgiving was particularly significant this year for Mrs. Mary B. Daley. Her son, Michael J. Daley listed as missing and believed dead since early in the pacific war, arrived home late yesterday after being help three and one half years in a Japanese prison camp. He was captured by the Japs in Java in June, 1942
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