George Preddy Papers
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- Video: George Preddy visits Greensboro, 1944
- This color 16mm film of Major Geroge Preddy's last visit home to Greensboro, in late August and September 1944, includes a lighthearted view of Preddy at home on Park Avenue in 1944 with his mother, driving an antique car (owned by Edgar Knees, the Minister at W. Market Methodist Church). There is also a second sequence, which shows an October 21, 1945 ceremony held at the Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD). Base Commander Col. Paul Younts presented George's parents, George Sr. and Clara (his sister Rachel was also present), with three posthumous medals, honoring his service and tragic death on Christmas day 1944, when he was shot down and killed by friendly fire over Belgium. A newspaper account (October 22, 1945) of the ceremony, with a photograph is found in the 1945-46 DAR scrapbook, Page 193.
