Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....BROWN, PFC JOHN MARION March 30, 1944 WWII U.S. ARMY COMPANY A 437TH SIGNAL HEAVY CONSTRUCTION BATT. ************************************************ 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 June 22, 2011, 2:18 pm WW 11 CRISP VETS NEWS OF THE DEATH OF HER SON, PFC JOHN MARION BROWN, WHO WAS FOR THREE YEARS A MEMBER OF COMPANY A 437TH SIGNAL HEAVT CONSTRUCTION BATT. .WAS RECENTLY RECEIVED BY MRS WILLIE MOORE BROWN. WHO RESIDES ON ROUTE 1,ARABI.THE MESSAGE FROM HIS COMMANDING OFFICER, STATED THAT PFC. BROWN WAS THE VICTIM OF AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT ON MARH 30, IN NORTHERN ITALY, AND EXPRESSES DEEP REGRET. THE WAR DEPT. LATER CONFIRMED THE TELEGRAM CONVEYING NEWS OF PFC BROWN'S ACCIDENTAL DEATH. ENTERING SERVICE IN FEBRUARY 1942,PFC BROWN RECEIVED HIS BASIC TRAINING AT FT. BRAGG,N.C.AND SIGNAL CORPS.TRAINING AT LANGLEY FIELD, VA., GOING OVERSEAS IN SEPT 1942. BESIDES HIS MOTHER ,SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO BROTHERS, ROSCOE BROWN,CRISP FARMER, AND PFC. EDDIE CARL BROWN, NOW OVERSEAS; TWO SISTERS ,MRS J.W.HODGE,RT C, CORDELE,AND MISS GEORGIA MAE BROWN,ARABI. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/other/brown1372mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb