WW2. POW.  The Lost Battalion.  Sgt. Kenner enlisted in the U.S. Army in November, 1940, was honorably discharged May, 1946. He was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, which became known as The Lost Battalion.  They left Pearl Harbor, Dec. 3, 1941, aboard the USS Republic, headed to the Philippines to fill in for MacArthur’s troops. When Pearl Harbor was attacked Dec 7, the US military knew the ship had left the harbor, but didn’t know their fate until after the war. They landed first in Australia, then Java and Burma. March 8, 1942, Sgt. Kenner became a prisoner of the Japanese and was shipped to northern Japan where he remained a POW for over 42 months. A Japanese colonel told them the war was over, almost all the guards had left, but they had to wait three more weeks to be liberated, as a typhoon hit. 