WWII veteran recounts POW liberation

Posted on November 11, 2022

For three long months, John “J.D.” Poppell’s family worried about their beloved son – their only news of him being a notice from the War Department stating that he was listed as “missing in action” during the Battle of the Bulge.

Then, in April 1945, a letter arrived from J.D. himself, sharing news that he had been liberated as a prisoner of war from a prison camp in Germany.

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