Oftentimes, the first public notice was a newspaper article: A local serviceman was missing overseas, his fate unknown. For some, good news would arrive quickly - perhaps that he would live out the war, captured but alive, in an enemy prison camp.
The Altoona Mirror, Altoona Mirror
Sun, 09/11/2016 - 9:00pm
Oftentimes, the first public notice was a newspaper article: A local serviceman was missing overseas, his fate unknown. For some, good news would arrive quickly - perhaps that he would live out the war, captured but alive, in an enemy prison camp.