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Show Death Claims Survivor of World War II MSgt. James Louis Greenleaf, veteran of World War II, and a survivor'of the Bataan Death March, Mar-ch, died at Walter Reed general hospital, Washington, D. C. July 2, at 8:05 p. m. of a rare disease which the doctors know very little about. His wife, Doris Jensen Greenleaf received a telegram a week previously, pre-viously, slating that he was not expected to recover. She went by the next eastbound plane and was at his bedside when he died. They were married in the Salt Lake LDS temple in June, 1946. Surviving are Mrs. Greenleaf and their two sons. David hnm 1947, and Norman, born Dec. 1948! Sgt. Greenleaf was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Overson, of Leamington, Leam-ington, and was a brother to Sgt. Harry B. Greenleaf, also a prisoner of war, in the Philippines. He enlisted en-listed in the U. S. Army January, 1940, and arived in the Philippines May, 1940. He was stationed at Nichols field, near Manila, until bombed out by the Japanese in the early stages of the war. The outfit out-fit was then moved to Bataan late in Dec, 1941, where he was until April 9, 1942, when Bataan fell. ' Weak from malaria, Sgt. Greenleaf Green-leaf survived the Death March, April 10 to April 16, with very little lit-tle food or water and was at Camp No. 1 at Cabanatuan from June 2, J.94A to July 17, 1944. Here he and fellow prisoners did farm labor, where their diet of a few vegetables vegetab-les and unpolished rice kept them in better condition than those at other camps. Even so, he got malaria mal-aria again, beri beri and dysentery, dysent-ery, and at one time weighed but 75 pounds. He was moved with 1500 other prisoners, crowded into a small Japanese freighter for 18 days, to Kyushu, Japan, where he worked in the steel mils until August 8, 1945, when it was wrecked by A-merican A-merican bombs. American planes started dropping food in the prison camp Sept. 3, 1945, in such quan-, quan-, ities that he gained from 127 lbs. up to 156 pounds by Sept. 17. Then he was moved by the Americans Amer-icans to Okinawa, and started on his way home. He was hospitalized at Ft. Lewis, Wash., and apparent ly in good health and suffering no ill effects from his imprisonment, was released. After a 90-day furlough, fur-lough, spent visiting friends and relatives, he re-enlisted in the army, ar-my, planning to serve until of retirement re-tirement age. Sgt. Greenleaf was 33 years old, born in Billings, Montana, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greenleaf. He had been ill one year. In addition to his wife and sons, he is survived by his father, two sisters, Mrs. Grace Berst and Mrs. Alice Mictan, Bakersfield, California, and brother Harry Greenleaf, at Cody, Wyoming. Wyo-ming. He had been stationd at Hill Field Air Force base. Funeral services will be conducted conduc-ted Saturday at 2 p.m. in Clearfield Clear-field Second ward chapel, and burial bur-ial will be in Clearfield cemetery. |