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PFC Donald Duane Johnson
United States Army 88th Div, G Company 351st Infantry
from:Polson, Montana
My father, Donald Duane Johnson, was taken prisoner October 24, 1944 at Vedriano, Italy. He was in an advance patrol on the city and was captured on a small hill at the edge of the city. There was a small church on top of the hill. The time was 3:30 P.M.. There was 9 hours of continuous machine gun, sniper, 88 cannon and creaming meemie fire. Their company was surrounded by the Germans when the company commander surrendered them. He kept a diary during the war handwritten in 67 pages of a blank book that he won in a lottery at Stalag 7-A in Moosburg, Germany. Copies of the diary and my father's letters are in the Minnesota History Museum archives in St. Paul, MN.
