Retired U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Edward Markley, 69, of 240 Scott St., died Wednesday at his home. He served in the Air Force for 31 years and was a prisoner of war for 14 months during World War II. He was a member of the 45th Bomb Squadron Association, the American Legion, and the Disabled American Veterans.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at Burdock Funeral Home in Kitzmiller, MD. Burial will be (in) Nethken Hill Cemetery (WV).

Surviving are his wife, Wilma Evans Markley; four sons, Terrance Wayne Markley of Belview, Neb., Ross Edward Markley of Tampa, Fla., Dale Warren Markley of Federal Way, Wash., and Joseph Henry Markley of Greensboro; two daughters, Linda Lou Gorski of Sterling, Va., and Ellen Irene Noble of Reno, Nev.; a brother, Ted Markley of Thomas, W. Va.; two sisters, Betsy Paugh of Frederick, Md, and Dorothy McIntosh of Silver Springs, Md; and 12 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Local arrangements by Seymour Funeral Home.

[ED NOTE: Kitzmiller, MD, is on State 42 just north of the WV line in far western Maryland. South of the line on 42 is Elk Garden, WV, where the Nethkin Hill Cemetery is located. ALSO: Sgt Markley wrote an account of his POW days, entitled Winged Victory, Barbed Wire, and Beyond: The memoirs of a WWII POW. GCW]

ITEM OF INTEREST:
The 461st Liberaider,
July 1990, Vol. 7, No. 1

STALAG LUFT VI, BARRACKS F-12
HEYDEKRUG, EAST PRUSSIA, 1944

"POWs housed with me, I still have the $5 bill all 25 signed before my move to Stalag Luft IV. I hope to renew acquaintences.

"Contact Joseph E. Markley, Route 15, Box 326, Goldsboro, NC 27534."

Career Station Assignments

AF Base	Unit	Years
European Theatre	739th Bomb Sqdn, 454th BG, 15th AF	1942 - Oct 12, 1945
German P.O.W.	Feb 25, 1944 - May 23, 1945	re-enlisted Nov 14, 1945
-	C-45 Aircraft Squadron, Com Maint. Sec.	May 1946 - Aug 1948
-	Inspector General's office	Aug 1948 - July 1950
-	Air Force Headquarters	Aug 1950 - Dec 1950
-	Military Air Transport Service "AACS"	Dec 1950 - Jan 1951
-	C-54 Squadron, Radio Maint. Sec.	Jan 1951- July 1952
-	C-47 Air Evacuation Squadron, Com. Sec.	July 1952- Jan 1954
-	Fighter Squadron, Com. Sec.	Jan 1954 - Oct 1954
-	F-89 Fighter Squadron, Air Defense System	Oct 1954- Oct 1957
-	32nd Air Div.	Oct 1957- Oct 1960
Seymour Johnson	482nd FIS	Oct 1960 - Sept 1963
(overseas)	-	Oct 1963 - Mar 1965
-	Tactical Air Controller (TAC), F-105 Squadron	Mar 1965 - Oct 1967
-	Field Maint., Com/Nav Sec.	Oct 1967- Oct 1970
-	4th Avionics Maint Sqdn, 4th TAC FW	Oct 1970 - Mar 1972
-	734th FIS, Com/Nav Sec	Mar 1972 - Aug 31, 1973

ED NOTE: Below are military locations of post WWII service that were listed separately from the above and I don't know enough to assign them correctly ... Sorry! ... but here they are anyway, in case a couple of you can see something that you know would have to fit. GCW

Greensboro, NC; Stockton, Fairfield-Suisun Air Base and Hamilton Field, California; Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania; Naha and Kadena, Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands) and Tokyo, Japan; Andrews AFB, Maryland; Westover AFB, Massachusetts; Keflavik, Iceland; Presque Isle, Maine; McCoy AFB; and MacDill AFB, Florida. [The list also includes Brookley Field, Alabama, a WWII bomber training base.]

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