Biography
Arranz Diaz, Avelino b. November 10, 1911, Tampa, Florida; POW; No passport issued, certificate of identity issued and taken up; Served with Republican Armed Forces in Northern Spain; Captured in the fall of the North; Exchanged April 22, 1939; Returned to the US on May 20, 1939 aboard the President Roosevelt; d. December 19, 1997; buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach, California.Source: Scope of Soviet Activity; POW; L-W Tree Ancestry; Find-a-Grave#94612054. Code A