Rollo had his coffee, ice cream, banana cream pie, roller skates and mother yesterday, and he was home. The city’s first released prisoner of war, Pfc. Roland A. Hamilton, 25, met his mother, family and representatives of local veterans groups at 11:07 a.m. yesterday at the Dayton Municipal Airport, Vandalia. With the aid of the screaming sirens of a police escort, he was rushed to Middletown in 45 minutes. His mother had been waiting at the airport for more than two hours. Private Hamilton had been scheduled to arrive at 9:18 a.m. Surrounded by two sons, Don and Earle; Earle’s wife Juanita, Don’s son, Donny, and Mrs. Altha Hamilton, 1303 Woodlawn Ave., watched the 9:18 plane unload and then fly off. No soldier had left the plane. A few minutes after 11, a DC-6 landed on the field and rolled toward Gate 2...

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