Iowa Old Press
Quad-City Times, Sunday, August 26, 1945
EX-PRISONER OF JAPANESE IS DISCHARGED.
Two More Are Mustered Out on Army Point System.
Sergt. Paul Gernandt, for nearly three years a prisoner of the Japaneses at Cabanatuan in central Luzon, is among three Davenport’s who have been discharged from the Army on points. The other two are Virgil J. Shannon and Sergt. Fred Stamp.
Sergt. Gernandt, the first man from this area with such an experience to be mustered out on points, amassed a total of 120 for discharge. Altho he dropped from 165 to 87 pounds from malnutrition during his imprisonment, he is now back to 150 pounds and has been pronounced physically fit by army physicians at Schick hospital in Clinton, where he was a patient for 75 days after returning to the states last March.
Enlisting on March 19, 1940, he was on Corregidor when it fell May 6, 1942, and was held at Cabanatuan until being liberated by American Rangers and Filipino guerrillas last Jan. 30. When discharged he held the rank of sergeant. Gernandt, who is residing with his wife, Beverly, at 1932 Hill street, said he now plans to start looking for a job.
[transcribed by L.Z., January 2023]