stalag 17b list of prisoners

Sergeant 272 0 obj<>stream State of Residenceunlisted Culpepper, Virginia It's on private property and I had to walk carefully to avoid trampling down the wheat that surrounded this densely forested area that has been left un-managed for . Private Swiss Red Cross report on Camp 59 (December 16, 1942), as referenced by Giuseppe Millozzi in Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano, Marshall C. Wells 4th Milner (Research courtesy of Brian Sims), John Jack Albert Allen U.S. Army, InfantryRifle T/Sgt. #2 U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Serial Number37026306 Private U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Private Address from Armie Hills address book: Private One of 12 POWs who escaped from Camp 59 though a tunnel on the night of September 11, 1942. State of ResidencePennsylvania Corporal 4 Normanby Street R.F.D. 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. Freeborn Joseph James. Sergeant Camp 59 POW Denis Crooks daughter Maggie Clarke said her father knew Arthur Harris. In Clifford Houbens address list, Jack is also noted as having been interned in Camp 59. U.S. Army, Medical DepartmentArmored Force Poems by Fred Chiltern are recorded in both Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling, and also in prisoner Edward Smiths book of poems. Sergeant The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. 322 Lincoln St. U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Infantry Serial Number16004997 U.S. Army, Field Artillery Warren Culver U.S. Army, InfantryRifle State of ResidenceNew York List Type: Inmate / prisoner list. He was decorated for this decision at the end of the war. Dawson Springs, Ky. Paul Wakelands name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. British Royal Artillery, Lincoln Territorial Battery 237, Address: CQ0 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 Repatriatedno camp listed). Private State of ResidenceTexas 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), J. G. Whitlow 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 J. Noah Private Australian Army Corps2nd/32nd Battalion, Raymond Felchle U.S. Army, Infantry Dvr. Edwin P. Rogers name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Escaped from Camp 59 in September 1943, Source: John Leon Turners son-in-law Terry Marshall, Felice D. Vacca Private First Class Royal Canadian Air Force Later in 1943, on 13th of December (my mother's, his sister's birthday), he was shot down again on a mission to Kiel, Germany. Stalag XVII-B Prisoner of war camp View all 30 images Object Number - UPL 28901 - SSGT Joe B. Dobbs Left Waist Gunner John Fouts Crew 466th BG - 786th BS Shot down 8 April 1944. Edwin H. Thofern U.S. Army, Infantry Service Number5774137 State of ResidenceIdaho 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. State of ResidenceIndiana [England, United Kingdom], Daniel M. Jorgensen U.S. Army, Medical DepartmentArmored Infantry Sergeant [England, United Kingdom], Captured in North Africa in April 1941 (possibly at Tobruk), POW in Tripoli and Camp 59; transferred to Camp 53 in February 1943 (with Robert Dickinson) and then to Stalag IV-G (Oschatz) where he likely was held for the remainder of the war, Source: Denis Crooks daughter Maggie Clarke, Leo A. Private Service Number1086472 State of ResidenceIllinois Service Number3958294 0000005307 00000 n Gil. Did Orville Higgins escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 11B Fallingbostel? Trenton, Florida, Corporal D. Nevitt is one of 10 prisoners whose poems are recorded in Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling., W. G. Newall Serial Number36151528 U.S. Army, Infantry Address from an envelope featured on metropostcard.com, Fred R. Phillips 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), Ernest C. Ellis (Rifleman 6852912) 123 Goldsmith Walk 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 S. Kornrumph Private The U.S. National Archives POW database include a listing for Moses Melmed, but no camp is specified. Serial Number20705257 Serial Number33137228 British Army, Interned at Camp 59 for at least two years, Arrived in Adelboden, Switzerland during the winter of 1943-44 and departed in October 1944, Convalesced in Leysin, Switzerland in 1944-45 before returning to England, Source: Robert Smiths niece Carole Procter; a news article from The Herald (A paper serving the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England) January 25, 1944, James L. Snodgrass 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), John A. Allen Coombs Stanley Bentley State of ResidenceNew York 0000002940 00000 n 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), Paul P. McLaughlin Serial Number14038487 Serial Number35261675 Technical Sergeant State of Residenceunlisted 20714955is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Pennsylvania. 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), Albert G. Ross Technical Sergeant John A. Sikorski 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), Willard Kirk State of ResidenceIllinois State of ResidenceNew York State of ResidenceIllinois C. Cowley 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), James A. Coccoran 21 Locust Street 1 Serial Number36306180 Special Air Service (British Special Forces) State of ResidenceGeorgia Seattle 8, Wash. [Washington]. U.S. Army, Infantry Dear Mr. Molle, Thank you for posting your request on History Hub! Staff Sergeant The number of English POWs in the same span of time decreased from 1,337 to 313. 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 Town Street Reached Allied lines, Dwight L. Dulaney Jacobs Joseph. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. Address from Armie Hills address book: State of ResidenceVirginia Private Staff Sergeant Sergeant Serial Number32026775 Serial Number33146437 The truth was that at most campsespecially the harsher ones such as Stalag 17-Bbartering between prisoners and even guards was serious business, sometimes a matter of survival. State of ResidenceTexas U.S. Army, Corps of EngineersArmored (Divisional) Surely this is the same Robert Mooney, but why his state of residence is listed as Mississippi is unknown. U.S. Army, Infantry August C. Erdbrink Service Number1433324 Sergeant Sergeant Serial Number20705393 Camp 59 internmentMarch 19, 1942May 25, 1943, R. E. Byne 404 No. Corporal This Charles A. Perkins, however, is listed as being from Illinois on his enlistment records. Private First Class Serial Number35261700 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 RepatriatedStalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang Prussia 54-12). State of ResidenceTennessee U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Force Source: John Shaws daughter Penny Hayes (nee Shaw). See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Black 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 Stalag 2B Hammerstein (99 work camps in vicinity of Koslin & Stolp) West Prussia 53-17). The U.S. National Archives POW database include a listing for William T. Miller, but no camp is specified, John H. Derek Millar The refugees were sergeants of the US Army Air Forces, most of whom had begun their lives under the Nazi boot the same way. Serial Number32019660 Concerning the nationalities of prisoners of Camp 59, Giuseppe Millozzi, in his splendid study of Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano, writes: According to the Italian military authority, in March 1943 Serviglianos camp held: 1,445 British; 464 Americans; 4 French. [United Kingdom], Jermiah J. Langone Serial Number12020628 Serial Number36052038 He took this bold action in violation of a stay put order issued from London ordering all Allied prisoners to remain in the camps. Serial Number34210020 Sergeant State of ResidenceKentucky Serial Number15047094 As the highest-ranking British officer in the camp after the Italian Armistice was signed, he convinced the Italian commander of the camp to let the prisoners escape before German troops arrived to deport them to Germany. Serial Number36336832 Sergeant He was then transferred to Camp 53 and later to Stalag IVb and Stalag IVc. Private I have recorded below names, military ranks and units, and notes concerning capture, internment, escape, and repatriation. State of ResidenceNew York Massachusetts. State of ResidenceCalifornia Private First Class Harold AdkinsSerial No. Myrtle Ford[or Myrtleford] Day Blain Prewitt Sergeant Battersea, S.W. Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Maholan is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Unusually, the entire crew successfully bailed out. Eric moved on alone and the following morning the German rounded up those who had stayed behind. Service Number7887518 Source: G. H. Birds name and address is recorded in Charles Simmons prison camp 1943 calendar and address book. Allentown, Pa. [Pennsylvania]. Private First Class Stanley BentleySerial No. Sioux City, Iowa. William Helmlys name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. inquire if anyone has any information about the crew and who may still Serial Number35214698 Corporal [United Kingdom]. Serial Number37042466 U.S. Army, Infantry Serial Number15054964 Inside their spartan quarters, prisoners searched for fellow crew members whom they had last seen inside a falling, shot-up plane, and acquainted themselves with the other men of their bay (a tightly clustered section of bunks that lined the barracks walls). 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 F. Kirkpatrick, Jr. Private Blain Prewitts name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Reached Allied lines, Donald F. Turner U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Private Want to find out more about your relative's service? Private Driver Serial Number37044160 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). U.S. Army, InfantryParachute Infantry Lower Edmonton, London N9 Serial Number37098469 Private 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. Shot down over Naples 11 Dec 1942 Serial Number37129829 John E. Riley 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 orno camp listed), 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) New York, Al Buttacavolis name and address (above) were recorded in Ray Kestners Christmas Book., V. J. Button U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Private U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Force 310 E. Tyler Sunny Side Each one was divided into halves shared by 150 to 240 men (and sometimes many more), who also shared straw-filled, flea-ridden mattresses in triple-deck bunks, a single stove with scant fuel (54 pounds of coal per week), wash basins into which cold water ran only a few hours each day, and a single indoor latrine for use after dark (for daytime use, there were multi-hole latrines a short walk from the barracks). 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment David E. Ridings name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Serial Number 20717605 State of ResidenceVirginia Athol Grays 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), Charles A. 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