Albert Fall Chase Papers, 1941-1951

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Albert Fall Chase Papers, 1941-1951

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Prisoner of War of the Japanese in the Philippinesduring World War II. Contains correspondence, government bulletins, and newspaperclippings relating to Chase's P.O.W. internment and death aboard a prisonship torpedoed by U.S. forces; correspondence and legal documents settlinghis estate and military claims.

3 inches

eng,

Archives and Special Collections Department. New Mexico State University.

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Chase, Albert Fall.

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Albert Fall Chase was born in 1918, attended New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, and entered the U.S. Army in 1940 with an ROTC commission. As were many New Mexico troops, he was sent in 1941 to the Philippines, where he trained native troops on Los Negros for the Philippine Scouts, 73rd Regiment. They fought on Mindanao and Cebu until they were captured by the Japanese in 1942. Chase was a prisoner of war in Camp No. 2, at Davao, Mindanao for two and a half years...