The radio operator landed so hard that he broke his leg along with sustaining multiple injuries including broken ribs and severe lacerations to the face. Serial Number11011496 Rifleman Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Willis C. Pirnie State of ResidenceIowa As Handy later wrote, We know now what none of us could have imagined then: that those who shuttled us in boxcars to Stalag 17 routed millions of others to the death camps. Doubtless other American prisoners of Stalag 17-B also discovered themselves counting their blessings as they pondered their plight in one of the Nazis harshest prisons. Serial Number32003300 No address for John Buchanan is recorded in Armie Hills address book. Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Milton is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Clifford Houben escaped from Camp 59 and was given refuge by Italians; he was later recaptured and sent to Stalag 2B in Germany. State of Residenceunlisted Flight Sergeant Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated but no camp is listed), Arthur Shupe 16th Parachute Field Ambulance Serial Number15047094 Reached Allied lines, Gene Schull Gus Teels name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. State of ResidenceWest Virginia Serial Number15055130 U.S. Army, Infantry British Royal Airforce, Sources: The Memoirs of J. H. D. Millar, published by Quaderni della Memoria, 2008; Giuseppe Millozzi, Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano. When the school was first started, attendance registered 1389, but gradually enthusiasm dropped until the average attendance was 980. . Serial Number12017070 The prisoners regret they are not in an Air Force camp. [Indiana]. Australian Army Corps2nd/28th Batallion, Leonard Caruso Grey ultimately reached Yugoslavia, where anti-Nazi partisans assisted him. Serial Number12040114 Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13). State of ResidenceConnecticut 20701885is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Serial Number37003120 Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated; no camp listed), Escaped from Camp 59 with Peter J. Calvagno, Joe C. Mandese, Tony Spicola, and Felice D. Vacca, Bernard Petrulis Also, there was often no shelter from the weather, which could be very cold in the Polish and Belarusian winter. 18 Westcliffe Street His body lay sprawled across the fence until the morning as a warning to his shaken fellow prisoners. Private Spokesman stated that attitude of the guards is often influenced by bombardments. ** Subject to change by Casualty Branches Moffett, Ralph P. Sgt. State of Residenceunlisted U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Edwin A. Wilcher Serial Number35200125 Bradford State of Residenceunlisted Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Capt. After hearing Rays story, it inspired me to read other first-hand accounts Stalag 17b. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. 1 W. 10th St. This article is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict. WX5012 Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Roman Rozanski Serial Number20701864 Enlisted June 7, 1940 State of ResidenceNew York State of ResidenceTexas U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers Liberated by the Americans after westward death march, Source: Charles Wheatleys granddaughter Samantha Constable, Ivan E. White Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Billy England State of ResidenceOhio Other units of the 13th Armored followed shortly and organized the evacuation of the PWs by C-47 to France on 9 May 1945. U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Force Captured December 15, 1941Gazala Line, Libya See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. The translation says: During World War II, this is the site of Stalag 17-B prisoner of war camp. State of ResidenceNew York Private Private North Finchley State of ResidenceVirginia Red Gross parcels were issued to each man in sufficient amounts to last about seven days. Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, Object number: UPL 54561 - Service Number967031 He drew a large pistol from his holster, moved the barrel to his right hand and swung its heavy butt hard into my head. U.S. Army, Corps of EngineersEngineer Private First Class Fredric G. Busky [Frederick G. Buske]Serial No. California, James Tasiopulos name and address (above) were recorded in Ray Kestners Christmas Book., Guss O. Teel Forman (A. Forman) is one of 10 prisoners whose poems are recorded in Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling., Alec Foreman Serial Number18061638 Private Scotland. Private First Class Serial Number6891870 49 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Technician, Grade 4 Private Sergeant U.S. Army, Infantry State of ResidenceIowa Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13). State of ResidenceNew York 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One), Captured at Long Stop Hill, near Medjez el Bab, Tunisia on December 23, 1942, Interned in Camp 98, Sicily, for one month, Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943; recaptured by German paratroopers nine days later, After recapture, Ralph Hoag was interned at Muhlberg, Stalag IV-B, Stalag II-B at Hammerstein, Stalag III-B Furstenberg on Oder, and Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde, Herman J. Hochman Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13). Lawrence Mortimer Lawrie Butler Serial Number37073082 Serial Number37036627 State of ResidencePennsylvania Dean Steeds name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Ebb W. McGuire Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Wesley A. Goettel Private U.S. Army, InfantryRifle The treatment at Stalag 17B was never considered good, and was at times even brutal. Corporal Id be happy to help you find it. Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Wesley Goettel See post Clifford Houbens Address List, January 5, 2013. Bernie Abrams. State of Residenceunlisted Signalman Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Melvin Whitfield Transfaal, South Africa, [This address is likely Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa]. Serial Number14030133 You have already flagged this document.Thank you, for helping us keep this platform clean.The editors will have a look at it as soon as possible. 9th Infantry Division U.S. Army, Infantry Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), John A. Trooper Driver Serial Number14027421 Service Number1424178 For civilian and concentration camps, see List of . NX10180 Captured June 15, 1941Fort Capuzzo, Libya Kings Norton Serial Number37157173 Gunner Serial Number38023144 As General George S. Pattons Third Army smashed its way across Germany toward Austria, it began liberating thousands of German captivesHitlers starving, mostly Jewish political prisoners and captured Allied soldiers and airmen. State of ResidenceIowa John Savageaus name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. State of ResidenceOklahoma Ray Dentler Serial Number36199768 State of ResidencePennsylvania 1st Dragoons State of ResidenceMichigan There is an average of one parcel a week for each man, he claimed, and they are so well prepared that the men have requested the Germans to limit their provisions to bread, potatoes, and hot water. Prisoners told a different story. State of Residenceunlisted Maspeth, New York, Source: Bernard Petrulis son Alan Petrulis Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriatedno camp listed). U.S. Army, Infantry U.S. Army, Infantry Private State of ResidencePennsylvania Nathan A. McClendon Handy exacted a measure of revenge by facilitating the only successful escape from Stalag 17-B. Minnesota, Wesley Goettels name and address (above) were recorded in Ray Kestners Christmas Book., R. E. M. Gollop See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Among the first to escape through the hole in the camps west wall, with fellow SAS soldier J. G. Whitlow on September 14, 1943, H. Schofield Source: Carl Goods granddaughter Crystal Aceves, Ronald Gordon New York Captured on the ground, the American pilots, bombardiers, flight engineers, and assorted gunners and other crewmen were first funneled into a processing center, Dulag Luft, near Frankfurt, Germany, for interrogation. While no serious incident has occurred, prisoners are treated badly by certain guards. 5115 Schuler Ave. Private First Class Sergeant Escaped on 10 September 1943 reaching Allied Lines in Termoli on 14 October 1943, Residence: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, Sources: Former Royal Artillery Museum Archives Woolwich, Para Data Archives Duxford, National Archives Kew, UK, plus the a personal account recorded by The Escape Lines Memorial Society (Courtesy of Nigel Hackett), Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) POW Freemen in Europe, Francis Cecil Dick Georges Account of Camp, J. Keith Killby's Account of the Escape in the UK Telegraph, November 2008, Sid Bowlands Account of Camp 59 and the Escape, The National Archives Access to Archival Databases, Veterans History Project of The Library of Congress. Special Air Service (British Special Forces) Pte Roger Lee Hymer 4th Btn. Enroute to the target their plane (a B-17F SN: 42-30602, named "Dry Run IV") was damaged by flak. Fields The 1945 map of Stalag 17B indicating today's location of the few remaining remnants of Stalag 17-B The map points to the grove of trees where the only relics of the camp remain. Hubert G. Dewey HUT 8. Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 State of ResidencePennsylvania State of ResidenceMassachusetts 309 Company, Royal Army Service Corps Camp 59 internmentJanuary 2June 1, 1942, Marshall J. Brekkes name and address (above) were recorded in Ray Kestners Christmas Book., Author of Behind Enemy Lines (Bognor Regis, Anchor Publications, 1985), Gilbert Broadbent was one of the 150 POWs transferred to Sforzacosta on February 23, 1943, Robert Brooks See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. 20th Ave. Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Paul I. Wakefield State of ResidenceDistrict of Columbia London,England. Private The Commandant promised to have the pits cleaned more often and provide more disinfectant. Serial Number20701801 U.S. Army, Infantry Private First Class Captured December 3, 1942Bizerta, Tunisia Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13). WX4449 Logansport, Indiana State of ResidencePennsylvania Edward W. Kober Lower Edmonton, London N9 . J. W. T. Duffield State of ResidencePennsylvania Serial Number33136672 Figures of other nationalities of the above POWs are in the Swiss Red Cross report that covers the same period. Serial Number12016749 Private Corporal James L. Rogers name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Reached Allied lines. This address for George Jordan is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: George D. Jordan Captured April 8, 1941Fort Michelli Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriatedno camp listed), Franklin E. Swint The address above is from that list. Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 U.S. Army, Infantry State of ResidenceSouth Carolina U.S. Army Baltimore, Md. U.S. Army, Air CorpsHeavy Bombardment Private First Class Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Emil W. Adams Corporal State of ResidenceConnecticut Kenneth J. Kurtenbach was MOC from the opening of the camp until its evacuation. 102nd Regiment, Royal Artillery Serial Number33088486 State of Residenceunlisted Private 13023021is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Bailgate, Lincoln Serial Number16023331 Adel, Iowa. [5], Last edited on 24 November 2022, at 06:56, Learn how and when to remove this template message, More Soviet prisoners of war died every day, "The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy", La GUEFANGUE - La Vie des prisonniers de guerre Franais en Basse-Bavire - 1939-1945 par Roger DEVAUX. G. H. Bird Private One man was badly wounded in the face and was thrown out by Lt Briley, but all 10 men were able to deploy their parachutes. U.S. Army, Infantry 7th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment Serial Number31069525 Consulted during the making of the film Von Ryans Express. He died in 1980. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Roland B. Poems by Fred Chiltern are recorded in both Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling, and also in prisoner Edward Smiths book of poems. Serial Number13022149 State of ResidenceMissouri Major Fred Beaumont was the SAO and the medical officer, but took no active part in their camp organization. Tennessee, Clovis Amos name and address (above) were recorded in Ray Kestners Christmas Book., Arnold L. Anderson Sioux City, Iowa. Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Maholan is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. U.S. Army, Field ArtilleryTank Destroyer Anthony Fiore Serial Number6953355 253 20
[Glamorgan, Wales]. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), John Procko 49th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery U.S. Army, Infantry State of Residenceunlisted Royal Horse Artillery Corporal Michael M. StermSerial No. State of ResidenceWisconsin Burton Street Serial Number33136497 Serial Number32294444 State of ResidenceKentucky The more I researched this place, the more I felt a strong need to see it with my own eyes. Corporal Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13). 0000002330 00000 n
Camp 59 internmentMarch 5, 1942March 3, 1943, Alfred Bowen Private Maurice Ernest Snow French 8540 5-31-44. Lt Briley observed several of his men being picked up by Red Cross ambulances. Warren A. Culver He was liberated from Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12 in June 1945. Serial Number6952090 The camp's American population soon swelled to more than . This address for William Redman is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: William Redman U.S. Army, Infantry 12th Lancers [Mississippi], Captured near Kasserine Pass in North Africa, Interned in Camp 98 on Sicily for 28 days before being transferred to Camp 59, Escaped from Camp 59 in September 1943 with Willis Largent; both men were protected by Nazareno Lupi and his wife for nine months (the Lupi family lived near the town of Force in the province of Ascoli Piceno), Sources: an interview with John O. Everett; John O. Everetts son John O. Everett, Jr. and daughter Sandra Everett Barnett, Eugene C. Excell (LogOut/ John A. Sikorski Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 14065982 (Stalag 17B, Barrack #17B) (303 rd BG, Squadron 358) Resto, Clement T/Sgt. In Clifford Houbens address list, John is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. There also existed a security committee. Northwich, Cheshire State of ResidenceIowa Private U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Soviet prisoners began to arrive and eventually dominated the camp. Serial Number37042238 Middle photo: Some personal items that belonged to Paul "Flash" Gordon, a B-17 ball-turret gunner with the US 327th Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, while he was at Stalag 17-B. State of Residenceunlisted William R. Walter State of ResidenceWisconsin Jesse E. Kirk State of ResidenceNew York Corporal August C. Erdbrink Serial Number35261700 State of Residenceunlisted number and were required to memorize it or endure severe physical punishment. Lt Briley was first sent to Stalag 17-B and later moved to Poland. Source: Robert A. Newton, who corresponded with or met former Camp 59 POWs or their family members, or heard about former prisoners from other escapees. Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Howard S. Delanoy U.S. Army, InfantryReconnaissance Mechanized Separate Are you sure you want to delete your template? Serial Number11033641 Finally, the Americans of Stalag 17-B were told to gather their meager possessions and prepare to move out. A postwar inquiry found that in less than two years of American captivity, there were about 30 recorded cases of guards striking PW [POWs] with bayonets, pistols, and rifle butt. U.S. Army, Infantry Trooper. Middleton Protests to the commandant were always useless. Ned Handy, a flight engineer from Massachusetts, described one such run-in with one of the camps more notorious guards: After dressing, I was the last out, trailing the others, when suddenly I was grabbed by my left arm and yanked about ten feet to a little shed. Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Address: U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Stalag 17B was situated 100 meters northwest of the village of Gniekendorf. W. Jock Timoney was interned in Camp 59 with gunner Robert Smith. Service Number6923234 Pilfered shingles and other scraps of wood went into the stove or were used to make tools. Sheffield [England, United Kingdom]. Serial Number35119503 Richard T. Mooney, Army Infantry, of Mississipi was returned to military control, liberated or repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-1. U.S. Army, Air CorpsHeavy Bombardment State of ResidenceKentucky Victoria, Australia, James Frederick Osborn Edwin P. Rogers name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. The other two were Staff Sergeant Cyrus F. Johnson Jr. and Staff Sergeant Edward T. Dzierzynski. British Serial Number37129829 Serial Number20704953 Herbert Frederick Parkes (RASC) was a POW in Camp 59 from December 1941 to January 1943. I did so because of my relationship with the late Ray Matheny, a former POW who lived nearby in American Fork, Utah. endstream
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Sergeant One prisoner remembered receiving just a single box during the wars final eight months. Sergeant The Third Geneva Convention, Section III, Article 49, permits non-commissioned personnel of lower ranks to be used for work in agriculture and industry, but not in any industry producing war material. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle John Everett is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Only 1 hot shower during the last two months. 5th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment 17 Linden Avenue 358) The following names are missing from the AAD World War II Prisoners. But also the dismal rations and food shortages that became a constant concern. Edgar J. Curttright Serial Number6966803 J. Keith Killby, together with other WW II , founded the Monte San Martino Trust in. U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers 601 Walnut Street Special Air Service Staff Sergeant The largest German World War II prisoner of war camp was Stalag VII-A at Moosburg, Germany. State of ResidenceNew York James Guillory Stalag IIIC Alt-Drewitz. Serial Number 7082151 These are the camps that housed captured members of the enemy armed forces, crews of ships of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft. Frequently prisoners speaking the same language, for example British Commonwealth soldiers, were permitted to intermingle. U.S. Army, Infantry Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Robert Brooks 0000003632 00000 n
Corporal Serial number7597368 TREATMENT: The treatment at Stalag 17B was never considered good, and was at times even brutal. John Park, who was ill at the time of the escape, was recaptured and died of pneumonia in solitary confinement at Camp 59 on September 28, 1942. U.S. Army, Infantry Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), William D. Daoust, Jr. [England, United Kingdom], George F. Neary
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