World War II Prisoners of War

This is a list of individuals from Fannin County who were prisoners of war in World War II.

Please let us know if you are aware of others who should be added to this list.

Click on the names for additional information on each person.

Jimmie Bob Anderson, taken prisoner at Corregidor

Robert Clinton Bicknell, Jr., prisoner of war in Burma for fourteen months

Roy Francis Brakebill, captured by the Japanese at Corregidor in May 1942

Ray Bankston, Jr., taken prisoner when his plane was shot down over France, a short time before D-Day.

Claud Wilson Bolin, held prisoner by the German after being captured in the Ardennes offensive.

Francis Edward Brantley, spent three months in a German POW camp

Carter Brooks Carmichael, captured on Corregidor and sent to a POW camp in the Philippines

Jack Clark, taken prisoner after his plane was shot down over Austria

​Carl Clements, captured by the Japanese at Java

Raymond Crews, prisoner of war in Germany, captures at the Battle of the Bulge

James Melvin Curtis, prisoner of war in Europe

Griff Lazelle Douglas, prisoner of the Japanese after being reported as missing for two years after the sinking of the Cruiser Houston in 1942

Philip Earnheart, prisoner of war in Russia near the end of the war

James Combs Edwards, captured during the Ardennes offensive.

Cleo Morrison Foreman, a missionary in China who was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1941 and liberated in February 1944.

Adrian D. Gentry, taken prisoner at Manila

Willie Bob Hicks, captured in France

Earl Wayne Hill, German prisoner of War for 16 months

Charles Ardon Holmes, taken prisoner by Japanese at Wake Island in November, 1941, freed in September 1945.

Reed Allison Hufford, prisoner of war in Germany.

W. P. Lorance, prisoner of war in Europe

Kenneth Wilson Luton, captured by the Japanese at Corregidor

Bryce Whitney McIntyre, taken prisoner after his plane was shot down over Germany

Jess Owen McKissack, captured by the Germans in the Ardennes offensive

Dalton Y. Medlen, taken prisoner on the beaches at Salerno, Italy

Miles, Walter Jefferson, held prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines, and lost while being transported on a Japanese ship of American prisoners of war which sunk Oct. 24, 1944.

Samuel B. (Jack) Moore, Jr., captured at the fall of Bataan, held prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines, and lost while being transported on a Japanese ship of American prisoners of war which sunk Oct. 24, 1944.

Moss, Edwin Boyd, taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines.

Jesse E. Nowlin, captured by the Japanese after the fall of Wake Island in December 1941

Brenard P. Nunnelley, Jr., prisoner of war for four months

Jack Dempsey Peak, captured by the Japanese in the Philippines

Jack Pickens, taken prisoner during action in Luxenbourg. Died in 1945 after being returned to the US

Dennis Madison Wilks, taken prisoner by the Japanese on Bataan.

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