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Duane Heisinger, the oldest of three sons of Grace and Lawrence Heisinger, was born in 1930 and raised in Fresno, California. After two years at Fresno State College and a year in the U.S. Air Force, Duane entered the U.S. Naval Academy graduating an Ensign in 1956. He served 30 years in the Navy retiring a Navy Captain. His assignments were primarily at sea including two ship commands, three combat tours in Vietnam, and over eleven years in overseas intelligence assignments including three years as the Defense Attache, London. In recent years he has been engaged in research covering the life and death of his father as a POW of the Japanese in the Philippines, WWII.
Duane passed away in May of 2006 after a year long bout with lung cancer. As a last tribute to his father and all the other WWII POWs of the Japanese, he was able to lead a tour to the Phillipines and dedicate the Hellships Memorial in Subic Bay in January, 2006. He is survived by his wife, Judith, three married daughters, ten grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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