To Bill Brown and Carolyn Haisty: With reference to men and women of Drew County who served in World War II, there is great album compiled by the Amercian Legion after the war that contains pictures and war histories of most of the men and women from Drew County who served in the War. The one's who were killed are listed in the front of the book. Black troops are listed in the back. There is no date on it, but I'm guessing it is late 1940's. I have a copy. Anyway, there are two Browns, both sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brown from Drew County who were killed in action in Europe in 1944 (shades of Private Ryan): T-Sgt. Allen Brown, graduate of Drew Central, Army Air Corps. Killed over the English Channel, presumably on a bombing run, on April 10, 1944 two months before the Normandy invasion. Also, Edward B. Brown, attended Drew Central, then joined the paratroopers in Dec. 1943. He was wounded in France, probably during the parachute drop preceding the Normandy invasion, then was killed in Holland on September 18, 1944, about the time of Operation Market Garden (see book and movie "A Bridge Too Far"). Four other Browns served in the war: Archie, US Army, North Africa, Italy and France; Cecil, Navy, Trained in San Diego; and James E. a T-Sgt. in the Army, graduate of MHS, who served in the Pacific at Guam and Saipan. All have pictures in the book. I hope this is helpful. I don't have time to comment on the POW Camp other than to say there have been at least two good articles written on the camp in the Drew County Historical Society Journal. Vigil Trotter and I used to walk around out there when we were in High School looking for artifacts. All the foundations of the barracks -- acres of them, plus streets and sewers -- are still out there as far as I know. I remember the chapel...a great piece of work, with a painted clay madonna. When I saw it it was still in pretty good shape except for dirt dobber nests. Got to go. My Best, Robert Lane >From ardrew-l-request@rootsweb.com Mon Nov 9 10:30:48 1998 >Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06687; > Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:30:17 -0800 (PST) >Resent-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:30:17 -0800 (PST) >Message-ID: <003301be0c0e$d1590460$0f3832cf@haisty> >From: "John Haisty" <jhaisty@tcac.com> >Old-To: <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] WWI and WWII >Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:28:57 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 >Resent-Message-ID: <"n6zTQC.A.QoB.4SzR2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> >To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1922 >X-Loop: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: ARDREW-L-request@rootsweb.com > >The POW camp at Monticello also held German prisoners, however most >were Italians. There was a chapel on the camp that had a very >beautiful stained glass window that was made by the prisoners. Sadly, >that chapel is no longer - as is true with most of the buildings >there. After the camp was closed, some of the barracks were converted >to housing and I spent many nights in the home of Mr. & Mrs. W. >A.Trotter there. In June, we held a family reunion at the Drew County >Fairgrounds, which occupy the land that was the POW camp. Homer Pace >who is in charge of the Fairgrounds visited with my husband and me on >several occasions. In our converstation about the POW camp, Homer >told us that the metal building that we used was the Motor Pool >building when the camp was there. The Motor Pool and one other very >small building are the only ones left of the original POW Camp. > >Carolyn >jhaisty@tcac.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: WILLIAM L BROWN <QPYR97A@prodigy.com> > > Also, during WWII, a camp near Monticello held Italian prisoners >of war. The county historical society has info on that. There is much, > much more if you want to look for it. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com