Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....DEKLE, LT MARCUS REID WWII - Letters U.S. ARMY ************************************************ 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 August 10, 2011, 2:45 pm LETTER COMES MR. AND MRS. S,M. DEKLE ARE IN RECEIPT OF A LETTER FROM THEIR OLDEST SON, LT MARCUS REID DEKLE, 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 DEPT. AS MISSING IN ACTION OVER AUSTRIA,LAST NOVEMBER 2ND. SINCE THEN, THEY HAVE THROUGH THE WAR DEPT. THAT HE WAS INTERNED IN A GERMAN CAMP. HIS LETTER TO HIS PARENTS,WHICH WAS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ,WAS DATED NOVEMBER 14,AND STATED UPON LANDING THE RED CROSS WAS ON HAND TO ISSUE WARM CLOTHING AND FOOD. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/letters/dekle1526mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb