Salisbury's Glenda Ball to speak at WWII event in Mount Pleasant
MOUNT PLEASANT — In 1945, John Albert Hayden Lingle of the U.S. Army Air Corps was taken as a prisoner of war after his B-24, the 'Jolly Duck' cras...
MOUNT PLEASANT — In 1945, John Albert Hayden Lingle of the U.S. Army Air Corps was taken as a prisoner of war after his B-24, the 'Jolly Duck' crash landed on a farm in Holland. After a 506-mile forced march from the western coast of the Netherlands to southern Bavaria, he arrived at Stalag VII weak, cold, hungry, injured and infested with body lice. On Sunday, June 4, at 2:30 p.m. Lingle's daughter, Glenda Ball of Salisbury, will share her father's experience in a program entitled, 'The B24 Jolly Duck : Past Present and Future' at the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society in Mount Pleasant.