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Last Name: ` YOUNG	First Name Middle Initial: JOSEPH		Nick Name: DON
Street:	City & State: FORT MYERS, FL		E-Mail:
Zip:	Phone:		Spouse: DORTHEA
Conflict: WW II	Service Branch: ARMY		Unit: 129 INF RANGER CO. C
Theater: ETO	Where Captured: GERMANY		Date Captured: 01/44
Camps Held In: FLORENCE ITALY 7A 2B			How Long Interned: 456 days
liberated / repatriated: liberated	Date Liberated: 04/45		Age at Capture: 26
Medals Received: PURPLE HEART, PRISONER OF WAR MEDAL
Military Job: RIFLEMAN		Company: Self Employed
Occupation after War: CARPENTER

Military Bio:

Joseph D. Young born in Lockport, IL joined the United States Army and became a Rifleman with a rank of Staff Sergeant with the 1st Ranger Battalion. Don (Joseph's nickname to his friends) was captured in Germany and became a Prisoner Of War on January 1944. During his 14 months as a POW he spent time in camps 7A and 7B in Florence, Italy. Don was one of the few POWs to ever escape a POW camp in April of 1945 and went on to become a carpenter and a avid flyer, living in Fort Myers, Florida until 1987. Joseph later passed away on April 23rd, 1999 his wife Dorthea, his daughter Adele, and his son Joe survives him.