Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. John Barclay Harrah

US Army 168th Infantry Regiment

from:Cadiz, Ohio

John B. Harrah. Taken at Fort Dix N.J. in 1942

John Harrah was captured during the battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, North Africa on 17th of February 1943. He was first sent to a POW camp in Italy and after a short time there he was moved to Stalag 2b in Hammerstein. When the war ended he was sent for rehabilitation to Camp Lucky Strike in France. He smoked only Lucky Strike cigarettes until the day he died in 2003.

John Harrah newspaper article

John B. Harrah and other Cadiz, Ohio soldiers returned from the war.

John B. Harrah Medal Display.



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