Crisp-Telfair-Tift County GaArchives News.....MAJOR JOHN DOWDY WOUNDED IN FRANCE June 27, 1944
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TIFTON GIZETTE June 27, 1944
 CORDELE FRIENDS OF MRS. EVA MAE DOWDY,FOR SEVERAL YEARS SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
OLD CORDELE HOSPITAL ,WILL BE INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING NEWS ITEM FROM THE 
TIFTON GAZETTE CONCERNING HER SON MAJOR JOHN DOWDY;''MAJOR DOWDY FORMERLY 
OFTIFTON WAS WOUNDED IN ACTION IN FRANCE , JUNE27,ACCORDING TO A LETTER 
RECEIVED HERE BY BY HIS BROTHER AND SISTER-IN-LAW ,MR AND MRS PRESCOTT DOWDY.
  MAJOR DOWDY,WHO IS A SON OF MRS EVA MAE DOWDY OF MIAMI,FLA. WRITES THAT HE 
IS GETTING ALONG VERY WELL AND THAT HIS INJURY IS TO THE LEG, BUT NOT TO BAD.
 AT THE TIME HE WAS WOUNDED HE WAS COMMANDING THE FIRST BATTALION OF THE 
FOURTH DIVISION. AFTER HE WAS WOUNDED IN FRANCE HE WAS FLOWN TO ENGLAND FOR 
HOSPITALIZATION.
 MAJOR DOWDY,WHO IS A TELFAIR COUNTY BOY, WAS PROMOTED TO THEB RANK OF CAPTAIN 
IN 1941 AT THE AGE OF 23 YEARS AND TO THE RANK OF MAJOR IN 1943 AT THE AGE OF 
25 AND IS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST MEN IN THE SERVICE TO ATTAIN THIS HIGH HONOR.
 HE WAS GRADUATED FROM McRAE-HELENA HIGH SCHOOL , ATTENDED GORDON MILITARY 
COLLEGE IN BARNESVILLE AND RECEIVED HIS DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GA. HE 
ENTERED THE ARMY BY APPOINTMENT UNDER THE THOMPSON ACT FROM THE UNIVERSITY IN 
1939 AS SECOND LIEUTENANT IN 1941. AFTER RECEIVING HIS CAPTAINCY HE WAS SENT 
TO CAMP GORDON WITH THE 4TH MOTORIZED DIVISION IN DECEMBER, 1941.WHILE HE WAS 
COMPANY COMMANDER AT CAMP GORDON THE COMPANY ROSE TO FOUR-STAR ORGANIZATION. 
AFTER THAT HE WAS A BATTALION COMMANDER OF THE THIRD BATTALION OF THE 22ND 
INFANTRY.
  MAJOR DOWDY MADE TIFTON HIS HOME FOR SEVERAL YEARS  WHILE HIS MOTHER WAS 
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE COASTAL PLAIN HOSPITAL THERE.

Additional Comments:
HE MADE LT.COL. ,WAS KILLED IN ACTION SEPTEMBER 16,1945 IN GERMANY.

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