John Mock was born in Eureka, KS. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps but his eyes were not 20/20 so they would not take him. John waited and later was drafted into the Army in 1943. His first boot camp was in Texas and while there he was placed in Communications. John was stationed to Europe and was taken hostage by the German Army. He was only 19 years old when he became a POW. Listen to his first hand account of that time in the attached video.