Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....DEKLE, LT MARCUS REID September 1944 WWII - Letters US ARMY AIR CORP ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 May 14, 2011, 1:32 pm LETER FROM GERMAN CAMP MR AND MRS S.M. DEKLE ARE IN RECEIPT OF A LETTER FROM THEIR OLDEST SON , LT. MARCUS REID DKLE,US NAVIGATOR ,NOW A PRISONER OF THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMUNICATION WRITTEN BY HIM,THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED. LT.DEKLE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT AS MISSING IN ACTION OVER AUSTRIA, LAST NOV.2ND. SINCE THEN,THEY HAVE HEARD THROUGH THE WAR DEPT. THAT HE WAS INTERNED IN A GERMAN PRISON CAMP. HIS LETTERB TO HIS PARENTS ,WHICH WAS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ,WAS DATED NOV.14 AND STATED UPON LANDING UNDISCLOSED POINT THE RED CROSSWAS ON HAND TO ISSUE WARM CLOTHING AND FOOD. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/letters/dekle1167mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb