Crisp County GaArchives News.....IDRIS LASSETER ,PRISONER OF WAR ,ADRESSES KIWANIS CLUB 1945
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CORDELE DISPATCH 1945
  PATROOPER IDRUS LASSETER,SON OF MR. AND MRS. J.A. LASSETER,WHO WAS A D-DAY 
COMBATANT AND ALSO  PRISIONER OF WAR IN ZEITZ, GERMANY FOR TEN MONTHS, WAS 
SPEAKER AT TODAY'S LUNCHEON OF CORDELE KIWANIS CLUB.
  PRESENTED TO THE CLUB BY McDONALD HOPKINS, THE CORDELE YOUTH, WHO WAS AMONG 
THE FIRST PARATROOPERS DROPPED ON THE NORMANDY PENINSULA, RECALLED THE 
EXPERIENCES DATING FROM JUNE 6,1944 TO THE TIME OF HIS ESCAPE FROM A GERMAN 
PRISON CAMP APRIL 15TH OF THIS YEAR.THE PROBLEM OF ASSEMBLING WITH 
PARATROOPERS SCATTERED OVER A WIDE AREA AND FAR BEYOND THEIR ZONE WAS AMONG 
THE FIRST OF EXPERIENCES RECALLED CAPTURE BY A GERMAN FORCE FIVE DAYS AFTER 
DROPPING ON FRENCH SOIL FOLLOWED EFORTS TO ASSEMBLE AT ASSIGNED EFFORTS TO 
ASSEMBLE AR ASSIGNERS.
THE PARATROOPER STATED THAT DURING HIS MONTHS OF IMPRISONMENT HE LOST 
CONSIDERABLE WEIGHT DUE TO LACK OF FOOD. HE SAID HOWEVER,THAT THE GROUP OF 
AMERICANS IMPRISONED WITH HIM EXPERIENCED LESS HARSH TREATMENT THAN THAT GIVEN 
IMPRISONED RUSSIANS. HE EXPRESED OPINION THAT A FEELING AMONG THE GERMANS THAT 
THE WAR WAS APPROACHING ITS END TEMPERED THE AQTTITUDE OF THE AXIS IN HANDLING 
PRISONERS. A NUMBER OF RED CROSS PACKAGES WERE DELIVERED TO HIM THE 
PARATROOPER DECLARED.

Additional Comments:
HIS FATHER J.A. LASSETER IS MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER'S UNCLE.J.A. WAS IN DRY 
GOODS BUSINESS IN CORDELE

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