Record #:

7108

Author(s):

Westbrook, Kathy Grant

Abstract:

The chances of three men who graduated from Four Oaks High School in the early 1940s reconnecting while serving abroad in World War II, would seem remote. The three Johnston County men, however, did meet again abroad. Earl Johnson was shot down in 1944. Douglas Johnson was shot down in 1943. Both were sent to the same prisoner-of-war camp. When the two men were liberated by American forces in May 1945, Donzia Bailey, serving with the 13th Armored Infantry Division, was among their liberators.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005, p92, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Veterans