BROWN – CombatVets Network

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Personal Details

Last Name: BROWN
First Name Middle Initial: S CHARLES
Nick Name: CHARLES
Street: 554 CENTRAL AVE
Country &State:
City:
State: HAMMONTON, NJ
Postal Code: 08037
Phone: 609 561-1789
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Spouse: Josephine M
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War or Conflict: WWII
Theater of operations: ETO
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Branch of Service/s: Army Air Corp
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Highest Rank: new_value
Military MOS (Job Descriptions): GUNNER
What military medals received: Air Medal, POW, Purple Heart,WW11 Victor Medal

Military Bio:

Charles Brown was captured in Yugoslavia and was sent on a 5 hour march were he would spend the next 13 months in a camp in Bulgaria. The Bulgarians executed two of his crew members while they were there. Mr. Brown was liberated in 1944 but was called back to service on October 1950 and was sent to duty in the Korean Conflict until 1955. Charles stayed in the U. S. Air Force until he was Honorably Discharged as a Intellegence Officer, he later went on to work with the local sheriff's Office until he retired in 1980. He now resides in Hammonton, NJ with his wife Josephine that he married on June 10th, 1945. He also a son, Gary Charles Brown. Crew members pictured above at the reunion of The Witch, the first POWs in Bulgaria are Joe Turley-PA, Tony Rauta-IL, Dale Hulsey-TX, J.T. Darlington (Pilot)- TN, Roland Gilletta-TX, Ned Howard-AR, Sylvester Brown-NJ, Joe Quigley (not pictured, but did attend the reunion).

My Message to Future Generations:

Post Military Occupation

Age when captured: 19
Date of Captured: 11/24/43
Place captured: YUGOSLAVIA
Camp/s held: BULGARIA
Date Released: 11/20/44
Prisoner-of-war status: Liberated
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