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Our namesakes
Post History
The naming of Post 233
On November 21, 1948, a committee from the Loganville American Legion Post met and chose a name. The actual words of the committee are:
"We your committee, after due care not to let the matter get into political influences and with respect to all the good people of this community, decided to name it as the losses came and honoring all the boys of the town, agreed to call the post BARRETT-DAVIS-WATSON POST for the ones who did not come back."
Guy Jennings Barrett, Jr.
October 9, 1921 – October 24, 1944 · Naval Air Corps
Guy Jennings Barrett, Jr. was born in Jersey, Georgia and later made his home in Loganville. He enlisted in the Naval Air Corps on August 20, 1942 and trained at Athens Preflight School and later at Olathe, Kansas. Guy received his commission at Corpus Christi, Texas and joined Squadron VF-26 in Alameda, California.
Early in the morning of October 24, 1944, he was the fourth to take off to fly over Japan on target combat air patrol. Guy was in the air a short time when witnesses saw him crash into the water about 125 miles from Leyte Island. A painstaking search was conducted, but he could not be found.
Incomplete. The biographies of the Davis and Watson namesakes were on pages whose images and text were not fully preserved in the Internet Archive. The Post should supply these so all three men are honored here. Seecontent/archive/post-officers__post-233-history.md for everything that was recoverable.