Joseph Henry Gollner was a golden boy, great at high school athletics, drummer in a band, went into the Navy, attended the Naval academy, Became a Navy flyer. married the daughter of Congressman John Wood, transferred to a carrier "The Essex", and died in a plane crash in January 1952.
When the movie "Men of the Fighting Lady" came out in 1954 it was advertised in Salisbury as the Joe Gollner Story.
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