Sept 15 is this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day, commemorated every year on the 3rd Friday of September.
To find out more regarding the detainees of battle and also those missing out on at work from McKean County, go to the internet site jfgvictoryverlag.com, which is the job of Joel Gilfert, regional armed forces chronicler. The website has a checklist of 96 soldiers from the region that endured as detainees of battle in World War I, World War II or Korea, or were Missing in Action.
About midway down the web page is the access for Private Walter Arnold Johnson, 1917-1944, a Kane indigenous offering in the 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion in World War II.
This year, his tale was included by the charitable Stories Behind the Stars as a POW shed in theSept 7, 1944, sinking of the Japanese ship Shinyo …