Third Area Serviceman On Red Prisoner List

Third Area Serviceman On Red Prisoner List

Pvt. Robert W. Fletcher, 19, of  438 Chidester St., Vpsilanti, today became the third Ann Arbor area serviceman to appear on the Communist list of American prisoners of war being held behind enemy lines.

His mother, Mrs. Mae Woodson, learned last January that her son was listed as missing in action in Korea while serving with the Third Armored Division.

The other two area servicemen whose names are among the 3,198 Americans listed are Cpl. Daniel F. Atwell, 20, son of Mrs. Esther R. Seeling of Brighton, and Cpl. John L. Adams, 21, brother of Mrs. Jane Caldwell of Ypsilanti.

Pvt. Fletcher was a three-sport athlete at Ypsilanti High School. He had been missing since Nov. 28, 1930.

He enlisted in the Army in April, 1950, and had been in the Korean conflict only a short time before he was reported missing.

Pvt. Fletcher received basic training at Fort Knox, Ky. He was then assigned to the Third Armored Division which had been in training at the Kentucky Army station.