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Malcolm S. "Doc" Foster was born in Calais on February 22, 1916, the son of Harry and Alice Chambers Foster. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Co rps on 09/25/40, serving with the 22nd Observation Squadron as a parachute rigger and infantryman in the Pacific Theater. Captured at Bataan, "Doc" was one of thousands of allied troops forced to march some 75 miles without food or water -- or be shot or bayonetted. "Doc" was held prisoner for 3 1/2 years, both in the Philippines and in Japan, working at a slave labor camp, mining copper.
Freed in August of 1945, after the Japanese surrender, and weighing only 80 pounds, he was honored with a number of awards, including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, the P.O.W. Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation with Two Oak Leaf Clusters.
Discharged on 06/07/46, he returned to Calais, where he worked for the postal service from 1947 until his death in 1959. Mary McCluskey became his wife on January 10, 1946 and they raised three sons -- Michael of Hermon, Thomas of Pittsfield and Daniel (deceased). "Doc" was a victim of the fire that destroyed the St. Croix Club on March 23, 1959. (Paper Talks Washington County edition, 2008)
Malcolm S. "Doc" Foster was born in Calais on February 22, 1916, the son of Harry and Alice Chambers Foster. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Co rps on 09/25/40, serving with the 22nd Observation Squadron as a parachute rigger and infantryman in the Pacific Theater. Captured at Bataan, "Doc" was one of thousands of allied troops forced to march some 75 miles without food or water -- or be shot or bayonetted. "Doc" was held prisoner for 3 1/2 years, both in the Philippines and in Japan, working at a slave labor camp, mining copper.
Freed in August of 1945, after the Japanese surrender, and weighing only 80 pounds, he was honored with a number of awards, including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, the P.O.W. Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation with Two Oak Leaf Clusters.
Discharged on 06/07/46, he returned to Calais, where he worked for the postal service from 1947 until his death in 1959. Mary McCluskey became his wife on January 10, 1946 and they raised three sons -- Michael of Hermon, Thomas of Pittsfield and Daniel (deceased). "Doc" was a victim of the fire that destroyed the St. Croix Club on March 23, 1959. (Paper Talks Washington County edition, 2008)
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Malcolm S. "Doc" Foster was born in Calais on February 22, 1916, the son of Harry and Alice Chambers Foster. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Co rps on 09/25/40, serving with the 22nd Observation Squadron as a parachute rigger and infantryman in the Pacific Theater. Captured at Bataan, "Doc" was one of thousands of allied troops forced to march some 75 miles without food or water -- or be shot or bayonetted. "Doc" was held prisoner for 3 1/2 years, both in the Philippines and in Japan, working at a slave labor camp, mining copper.
Freed in August of 1945, after the Japanese surrender, and weighing only 80 pounds, he was honored with a number of awards, including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, the P.O.W. Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation with Two Oak Leaf Clusters.
Discharged on 06/07/46, he returned to Calais, where he worked for the postal service from 1947 until his death in 1959. Mary McCluskey became his wife on January 10, 1946 and they raised three sons -- Michael of Hermon, Thomas of Pittsfield and Daniel (deceased). "Doc" was a victim of the fire that destroyed the St. Croix Club on March 23, 1959. (Paper Talks Washington County edition, 2008)
Malcolm S. "Doc" Foster was born in Calais on February 22, 1916, the son of Harry and Alice Chambers Foster. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Co rps on 09/25/40, serving with the 22nd Observation Squadron as a parachute rigger and infantryman in the Pacific Theater. Captured at Bataan, "Doc" was one of thousands of allied troops forced to march some 75 miles without food or water -- or be shot or bayonetted. "Doc" was held prisoner for 3 1/2 years, both in the Philippines and in Japan, working at a slave labor camp, mining copper.
Freed in August of 1945, after the Japanese surrender, and weighing only 80 pounds, he was honored with a number of awards, including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, the P.O.W. Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation with Two Oak Leaf Clusters.
Discharged on 06/07/46, he returned to Calais, where he worked for the postal service from 1947 until his death in 1959. Mary McCluskey became his wife on January 10, 1946 and they raised three sons -- Michael of Hermon, Thomas of Pittsfield and Daniel (deceased). "Doc" was a victim of the fire that destroyed the St. Croix Club on March 23, 1959. (Paper Talks Washington County edition, 2008)
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