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Last Name: ` MASON	First Name Middle Initial: LEVI		Nick Name: Lee
Street:	City & State: TWO RIVERS, WI		E-Mail: karen@baraboonow.com
Zip: 54241	Phone:		Spouse: Evelyn
Conflict: WW#2	Service Branch: ARMY		Unit: 2nd division.,9th inf., 2 bt., Co. E
Theater: ETO	Where Captured: Sigfried Line		Date Captured: 10-3- 44
Camps Held In: 12A,Katrine,Limberg,Germany			How Long Interned: -216 days
liberated / repatriated: liberated	Date Liberated: 3-44		Age at Capture: 29
Medals Received: European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Service Medal American Defense Service Medal 3 Overseas Bars Lapel button(no time lost)4 Discharge Emblems
Military Job: Rifleman		Company:
Occupation after War: Mason,laborer

Military Bio:

Born in Smithfield,Ill. 2-15-15 to Robert James Mason and Sadie Bell Kimes Mason .Enlisted 3-12-41 in Peoria ,Ill.
Sent to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin where he went my Mom(Ruby C. Loomis) who was from Baraboo,Wi..They married-8-16-1943.He was sent off to England ,Wales,and then to Normandy.He fought with the 2nd Division ,9th infantry,3rd Platoon. He was captured Oct.3,1944 and taken to POW Camp Kristine @ Limberg, Germany.He was held 6 months til freed by a Russian Woman Soldier (3-44).After returning home he became the father to 3 daughters(Karen,Judy,Janice) and 1 son ,(James).He was killed Friday ,March 5th,1999, at the age of 84 in a car accident in Two Rivers,Wi.