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Douglas Brown ~| Killed Aug. 15 !! In ItalyI - !Had Written That | He Was LeavingI Soon For France! __ ij .CpI. Douglas R. Brown, 33. was !killed in action in Italy, on An-!: guest 15. according to a message |from the War Department to his : —wife, Mrs. Carmen Grines Brown 1 -r. of St. George. Ga.. yesterday. Cpl. ', Brown is the son of Mr. and Mrs. jj Hendrick. Brown. 814 Pine Street. ! J,J On August 15—the day Corporal ! -m; Brown was fatally wounded—he : jj! had written a letter to his wife :| raying that he was on his way :o j; join the American forces in France ■who were marching on Germany, iHe wrote that since he would be • 10fast pursuing the fleeing Nazis, his ! ri\letters would not be as frequent as j wjthey had been in more recent ; qwe£ks. but asked her not to worryabout him. To his mother he had •written somewhat in the same vein Paon August 14. : IslA member of an Airborne: vaEngineering Company. Corporal ‘Brown had participated in the cam- __ ; an{Turn to Page 6, Story No. 7) da:
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Danville Bee
Danville, Virginia, US
Tue, Sep 05, 1944
Page 7
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