Serial Number31047316 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 Marion, Iowa, Lee Cooper Orville Higgins name and address 9above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Within days of the rescue, American forces began uncovering the ghastly results of Hitlers Final Solutionhuman slaughter pens filed with the remains of thousands of Jews and other people Nazis considered undesirable and unworthy of life. Prisoners often bartered with one another for supplies. 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), Milo F. Webb Sergeant U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Forces Private First Class State of ResidencePennsylvania Serial Number33088486 Service Number3958294 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). Serial Number36160842 Serial Number15057395 Gil. Dennis J. Sweeney Knoxville, Illinois. 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). Source: Giuseppe Millozzi in Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano, John L. Whitten Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 1st Battalion, The Buffs Serial Number37044160 Serial Number12011751 Enroute to the target their plane (a B-17F SN: 42-30602, named "Dry Run IV") was damaged by flak. 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), Clarence W. Dust About Stalag 17-B. U.S. Army, Infantry [New Mexico]. Serial Number38027037 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 ResidenceIndiana England. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Warren A. Culver U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Dillard Anderson is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. 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 3B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia (Also KDOS [USA] #1-5; ARB BTNS 225-255) 52-14), Ralph Hoag Tex Reomes name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Serial Number33137217 Sergeant He was liberated from Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12 in June 1945. Serial Number12026083 Haverstraw, N.Y. [New York]. 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. Serial Number12020033 Private London Irish Rifles U.S. Army, Air CorpsBombardment, Heavy Henry Kanes name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. He learned quickly to hate the Nazis. Sgt. 192 Washington Street Frequently prisoners speaking the same language, for example British Commonwealth soldiers, were permitted to intermingle. Further articles of Section III detail conditions under which they should work, be housed and paid. Staff Sergeant Did John Pawlawski escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 3B Furstenberg Brandenburg? Roswell, New Mex. 11011529) from Rhode Island as liberated from Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. I am pleased to have been contacted by many in the UK whose fathers, grandfathers, and uncles were interned in the camp. Charlie Perkins name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. An example of extreme brutality occurred in early 1944. If I recall correctly, his ship was shot up once so badly of France that they had to bail out shortly after returning across the Channel. 20 Woodside Grove Australian Army Corps2nd/32nd Battalion, One of nine Australian POWs who escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943, (The nine Australians were: John Jack Albert Allen, Thomas David Alman, Arthur George Bellwho sometimes went by A. G. Jux, Lawrence Mortimer Lawrie Butler, Vaughan Lawrence Carter, Robert Edward Albert Edwards, James William Feehan, Ronald James Jimmy McMahon, and Leslie Worthington), Address from Camp 59 prisoner Charles Simmons calendar/address book: Did Robert Chandler escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 3B Furstenberg Brandenburg? Private Serial Number35108445 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 3B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia (Also KDOS [USA] #1-5; ARB BTNS 225-255) 52-14). If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small State of ResidenceNew Jersey 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), Opal E. Ware Address from Armie Hills address book: photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. State of ResidenceIowa State of ResidenceFlorida 32432937 (Stalag 17B, Barrack #17B) (303 rd BG, Squadron 358) The following names are missing from the AAD World War II Prisoners of War Data File for Stalag 17B. Camp 59 internmentDecember 22, 1941May 15, 1943, Patrick Cahill [United Kingdom], Jermiah J. Langone Some of these heroes deserve a book on their own. I wondered why this plot of land was not reclaimed by a local farmer. Captured in Tebourba, Tunisia on December 6, 1942. Serial Number6973874 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), Joe L. Ross Reached Allied lines, Dwight L. Dulaney U.S. Army, Air Corps Technician, Grade 5 WX5012 State of ResidenceMissouri Camp 59 internmentMarch 10, 1942April 1, 1943, J. W. Cade 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), Billy England 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), Clarence T. Tom Cronin Shot down 8 April 1944. 4th Milner Is this the same Edmund Cote, and was he living in Massachusetts at the time of the war? South Shore, K.Y. Private Sgt. State of ResidenceIowa 32003230 Alfred Adamo recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Bud Davids name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Massachusetts. 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), Marvin Varnes U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers He considered himself lucky to have survived. Other units of the 13th Armored followed shortly and organized the evacuation of the PWs by C-47 to France on 9 May 1945. The U.S. National Archives POW database include a listing for Moses Melmed, but no camp is specified. According to the Geneva Convention, as non-commissioned officers, the Americans were not required to work. 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, Infantry Bist offered art lessons in Camp 59. Corporal Added details from : http://www.b24.net/pow/stalag17.htm. Serial Number37044192 Frederick W. Solberg Reached Allied lines. Corporal Private Private First Class Private U.S. Army Captured December 4, 1942Tunisia zBPk ql5^ ~fuYg=SsZ. One of these buildings had been used a s a gymnasium, and the other chapel. See post Clifford Houbens Address List, January 5, 2013. Of these, 73 were recaptured within two weeks, and 50 of them were executed by order of Hitler in the Stalag Luft III murders. State of ResidenceNew Mexico State of Residenceunlisted [Wisconsin] 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), Kenneth E. Gaddy In Germany, stalag (/ s t l /; German: ) was a term used for prisoner-of-war camps.Stalag is a contraction of "Stammlager", itself short for Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschaftsstammlager, a literal translation of which is "War-prisoner" (i.e. 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). Liberated by the Americans after westward death march, Source: Charles Wheatleys granddaughter Samantha Constable, Ivan E. White Private At my last interview before he passed away, this 95-old still spoke with pain in his eyes, remembering the brutality of Stalag 17-B. Herbert Frederick Parkes (RASC) was a POW in Camp 59 from December 1941 to January 1943. . U.S. Army, Infantry Private 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. State of ResidenceTexas It felt like it was their primary objective to demean and humiliate all prisoners, but especially incoming prisoners. Hastings, Sussex U.S. Army, InfantryRifle E. R. H. Silverman Serial Number32161370 Serial Number12005201 New York. At Stalag 17-B, one of the most notorious German prisoner-of-war camps, the American fliers were herded from the train to the bleak outpost about a mile or so away. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Adolph J. Corona Staff Sergeant Serial Number6906252 When it didnt rain or snow, nighttime brought some relief from pain, as the men lay their tired bodies down to sleep in the woods and fields along the winding country roads. 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