It was Max. Serial Number33136536 Ray Felchle Paul Wakeland 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), Virgil Jarvis, Jr. U.S. Army, Infantry Serial Number14002753 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. State of ResidenceIowa Sherwood, Nottingham Serial Number20705331 Sergeant LDr_nnno;V:0 ~,=Xe-v5)F`'P->`=]XDIJH$?I?S 0?0$_G]3FPdaC`yz&w[3f*'xHTLY1MIe6A3G0OI Yu3eYj3 Fred Chiltons address is from G. Norman Davisons prison camp notebook. Source: Henry Kanes son George Kane, Richard Kane Serial Number37129673 Dvr. Serial Number33145895 Date: 1942 Jan 01 - 1945 Dec 31 Held by: The National Archives, Kew: Former reference in its original department: U.S. Army, Infantry U.S. Army, InfantryRifle (15B- 97 th BG) (Captured 10/21/1942) Alderman, R.J. (Jimmy) (15B-95 th BG ) (Captured 4/13/1944) Alexenberg, Roland (Lex) (38B-95 th BG) (Captured 10/04/1943) Allred, Joe D. (Hosp-1 st Spec. 391 Grand Street Keith Argraves Private Frederick Brooks Vandergrift Want to find out more about your relative's service? Serial Number6953355 Clermont, Florida, William W. Hurley Serial Number35264025 309 Company, Royal Army Service Corps Joseph J. Keeley Serial Number37100623 26A Cedar Ave.N. In at least one other case, that of Clifford Houben, the address listed on the playing cards was the address he was stationed at immediately before he went overseas, not his original home address. Harry Kirschner U.S. Army, Infantry Service NumberT/164744 [Iowa]. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle 9th Infantry Division State of Residenceunlisted Russia had not signed the 1929 Geneva Convention agreement, which, on paper, guaranteed humane treatment for prisoners of war. Serial Number33137881 The following list includes the 253 Americans identified in the U.S. National Archives database of WW II POWs as returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13, (or who died while prisoners). Serial Number20701895 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), Lawrence F. Hunt 11011529) from Rhode Island as liberated from Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12. Hometown of Sheffield ( above ) were written on a card in Luther Shields Deck of playing.! These two servicemen are Morris Kirschner and Wallace E. Kirschner. Source: researcher Robert A. Newton and the U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, Russell B. Merritt State of ResidenceTennessee Number20704893 [ Pennsylvania ] were given to soldiers the hole in the wallSeptember 14 1943. Edwin P. Rogers name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Private First Class William W. HurleySerial No. 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), Dewitt Stansell State of ResidenceTexas Bramley, Leeds The address above is from that list. State of ResidenceGeorgia Captured December 5, 1942El Bathan, Tunisia The other two were Staff Sergeant Cyrus F. Johnson Jr. and Staff Sergeant Edward T. Dzierzynski. State of ResidenceMissouri 0000000622 00000 n
State of ResidenceOklahoma Escaped from the camp September 14, 1943, Source: Charles Simmons daughter Trish Harper, John C. Simmons, Jr. U.S. Army, Air CorpsHeavy Bombardment Many American servicemen who were recaptured after the September breakout are recorded in the database as repatriated from German-controlled stalags. 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment His enlistment records indicate that he is from Bristol County, Rhode Island. Serial Number6992438 Serial Number37282896 Captured December 28, 1941Agedabia, Libya If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. U.S. Army, Infantry John Prockos name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Liverpool 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. Armie Hills prison Camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of 59! 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 Want to know what life was like during the War? Service Number964741 1306 Main St. Address from Armie Hills address book: [ Lincolnshire ] U.S. Army, Infantry 102nd Regiment, Royal Artillery Serial Number33126737 Serial Number32354694 Corporal Edgar CurttrightSerial! U.S. Army, Field Artillery155 MM Howitzer Truck Drawn 1225 Quincy Street, N.E. 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment Hot water and showers were as rare as toothbrushes, combs, and toilet paper. Jacob Stiners name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. State of Residenceunlisted Littlehampton, Sussex U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Serial Number15041867 Private Address from Armie Hills address book: Serial Number36200720 U.S. Army, Infantry Private One prisoner remembered receiving just a single box during the wars final eight months. The work of an Austrian artist who created four markers on the corners of the was. Moses was near Comunanza with a large group, including Gus Teel, Francis Thomas and Walter Simon. As elements of Pattons 13th Armored Division blasted their way into Austria, they found several groups of chilled, ashen-faced Americans in the woods near Braunau. State of ResidenceArizona Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Milton is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Corporal This address for Leslie Beer is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Leslie J. On approach of the Soviet armies in January 1945, was evacuated from the stalag with other prisoners Stalag IIIB Frstenberg/Oder. Royal Army Service Corps Roy Hatfields name and address (above) and the quip Hill Billy Sheep Hearder 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), Wesley A. Goettel Serial Number20705350 Serial Number39227259 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. 47th Infantry Regiment Serial Number34138090 William George Wales Serial Number32188999 Sergeant State of ResidenceMichigan See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Route 4 33090536is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. South Shore, K.Y. Warren, Ohio. Serial Number37042382 Special Air Service (British Special Forces) He was supposed to be a POW in Stalag 17, but when I searched the online records at the National Archives, his name did not come up. 412 Pulaski St. State of Residenceunlisted Serial Number16048446 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), Source: Raymond Kestners granddaughter Jessica Kestner McMahon, Everette L. Kidd Culpepper, Virginia Serial Number6906252 Staff Sergeant 0
Was taken by this unit down the Adriatic Sea coast to the British 8th Army at Bari, Italy, on October 25, 1943. 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). Only the nearness of freedom drove many on. State of Residenceunlisted U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Beer State of Residenceunlisted Serial Number20701801 Serial Number32105474 U.S. Army, Infantry E Company Hartwell R. Harris 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 H. Williams Corporal Franklin E. Swints name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. George Reesclaf (or Reuschak), Jr.s name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Sergeant U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Division 72nd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery State of ResidenceNorth Carolina To free-spirited airmen accustomed to seeing only the pastoral outlines of the German landscape or the tops of cities, the ominous, tightly-pressed surroundings were troubling. WX4445 852 Muhlenberg St. This Charles A. Perkins, however, is listed as being from Illinois on his enlistment records. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Private In Clifford Houbens address list, John is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Force Serial Number13078670 5th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment In the middle of the beautiful Austrian countrysideof rolling hills and thick forest stood an ugly placethe sprawling eyesore and den of misery known as Stalag Luft 17-B. (About 200 sick prisoners stayed behind, and were liberated by Russians on May 9.) This address for Ronald Streatfield is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Ronald A. Streatfield 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), Alec. Hill Billy Sheep Hearder [sic]. T/Sgt. 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. Novotny Serial Number12066110 U.S. Army, InfantryRifle State of ResidenceWest Virginia 1701 Giulford Ave. Serial Number18120685 4 Carr Lane Captured at Battle of Longstop Hill, Tunisia, December 23, 1942, Henry Kane and Richard Kane (below) were brothers. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Reached Allied lines, Charles K. Simmons Private First Class Knoxville, Illinois. State of ResidencePennsylvania U.S. Army, Armored U.S. Army, InfantryRifle U.S. Army, Infantry Sioux City, Iowa Gus Teels name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Staff Sergeant John Sikorskis name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Dundee, Angus Alvie D. Cochran Private State of Residenceunlisted Royal Army Medical Corps Source: G. H. Birds name and address is recorded in Charles Simmons prison camp 1943 calendar and address book. 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 Repatriatedno camp listed). Corporal State of ResidenceIndiana State of ResidencePennsylvania Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) State of ResidenceIowa R.R. [United Kingdom]. U.S. Army, Infantry The address above is from that list. Arnold L. Anderson See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. 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. Corcoran 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 but no camp listed). 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), Alfred T. Yax 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. Double rows of barbed-wire fencing surrounded low-slung prison barracks and a dirt compound. I was thrown through its rickety door before I could even react. Service Number1712593 Serial Number10600080 After their time in Camp 59, the men were sent to separate camps and, after escape from their respective camps, both made their way north to freedom in Switzerland. East Surrey Regiment, British Army Private Reached Allied lines, Gilbert D. Loonam Address from Armie Hills address book: [England, United Kingdom], Daniel M. Jorgensen Sunny Side Captured December 4, 1942Tebourba, Tunisia William R. Walter U.S. Army, Air CorpsMedium Bomber (B25, B26) 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), Source: Edwins great grandson John Garner, A. 0000003632 00000 n
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 Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich 48-11). U.S. Army, InfantryRifle 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment 77 Weetamoe Street Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 Emerson Street Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 with Joseph Olinix, George Tucker, James Snodgrass, James Martelli, and James Kingsley. T. H. Knight 11 Clent Avenue West 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), Ivan J. Robinson Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 Serial Number38064103 U.S. Army, InfantryRifle U.S. Army, Infantry Private 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) Private Left Waist Gunner
Gunner U.S. Army, InfantryRifle The school was held in a building containing the fiction and technical libraries. The destination of the column was a Russian prison camp 4 kilometers north of Braunau. Serial Number33186173 After one and a half years, was transported to Hamburg, Germany; then moved to Cologne, Germany, Liberated on April 18, 1945 by a British tank battalion, Sources: American Ex-Prisoners of War biography and Frank Mancinellis daughter, Irene Mancinelli, Joe C. Mandese This address for Jack Davies is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Jack Davies U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Malone, N.Y. [New York]. State of ResidenceNew Mexico Private First Class Staff 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 from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Martin G. Wethington Corporal See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. State of Residenceunlisted 0000009112 00000 n
State of Residenceunlisted Waverly Park Glam. Service Number5495088 State of ResidenceMassachusetts 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 State of ResidenceDelaware 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. Corporal State of ResidenceAlabama Private First Class Harold S. ArnesonSerial No. State of ResidenceKentucky Private John T. Davis Serial Number33246928 Captured December 3, 1942Bizerta, Tunisia Jacob Stiners 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). This address for Eric Brown is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Eric Brown State of ResidenceIndiana Were given to soldiers names are missing from the Stalag with other prisoners Stalag IIIB Frstenberg/Oder II POWs list Edmund. Gravier 2217 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), Thaddeus A. Sopel England. 2006 7th St. Signalman endstream
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Did Anthony Fiore escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 2B Hammerstein? Service Number3196639 Serial Number32423241 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 F. Jones 15 Ancill Street [Indiana]. 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 Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st Buffs, Captured in North Africa on December 15, 1941. CHESSELLARNOLDPRE No 7264690. James W. Tasiopulos State of ResidenceIllinois 607 6th Street U.S. Army, Infantry Private C. Cowley Rifleman 6142045 Serial Number37073082 State of ResidenceNew York Tex Reome 13023638is 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 CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Robert J. Noah It was their first encounter with Nazi Germanys tormented, mostly Jewish political prisoners. 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), Arnold Chessell Serial Number12005280 U.S. Army, Infantry 17 Linden Avenue Serial Number36160842 Private Service Number5774137 Grimsby [North East Lincolnshire] Serial Number17028052 U.S. Army, InfantryParachute Division New Road U.S. Army, Field ArtilleryArmored 105 MM Howitzer Serial Number12005278 State of Residenceunlisted [Wisconsin] Private First Class James Guillary [Guillory]Serial No. Corporal Private Corporal Fred Chilton and Norman Davison were sent to North Africa on the same boat, were captured together in Libya in April 1940, and were transferred from camp to camp together, eventually ending up in Camp 59. Kalgoorie U.S. Army, InfantryRifle His enlistment records indicate that he is from Bristol County, Rhode Island. R.R. Reached Allied lines, Donald F. Turner Sullivan, Ind. 202 5th Ave. N.E. Patrick Cahills address is from an official notification of his capture to his parents. Guss Teel and Francis A. Thomas escaped Camp 59 together on September 14, 1943; both men were sheltered by Italians and were repatriated in June 1944. Private First Class Alvie D. CochranSerial No. Serial Number39186606 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 Savageau Serial Number16037380 Serial Number6131066 Houston,Tex. Harold Arneson 7 Leicester Street 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), Michael J. Rotunno U.S. Army, InfantryRifle U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Hymer Roger Lee. Private While he was stationed in Massachusetts he married; the address of Lowell, Massachusetts in Luther Shields playing card deck is the address of the newlyweds before Clifford went overseas. U.S. Army, Infantry State of Residenceunlisted [Texas]. For the quickly thinning American ranks, the average daily menuwhich German officials, not the prisoners, chose to reduce when Red Cross parcels were distributedconsisted of warm water in the morning (which many men used to make coffee), a few crusts of dark bread of dubious preparation in the afternoon, and a dinner of pitifully thin soup of perhaps potato or rutabaga, but more often fish heads and other assorted discards. 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. U.S. Army, Infantry The address above is from that list. State of Residenceunlisted Warren Culver Corporal NX10180 Johnstown, Pa. [Pennsylvania]. State of ResidenceIowa State of ResidenceMissouri 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 from Stalag 3B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia (Also KDOS [USA] #1-5; ARB BTNS 225-255) 52-14). Service Number5732581 State of ResidenceTexas 272 0 obj<>stream
Service Number1707955 Prisoners often bartered with one another for supplies. New Marion, Ind. John A. Allen Brooklyn, New York, Third Regiment 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 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15), Shot down while on a bombing mission in the Mediterranean, Interned at Camp 59 for three months; made friends with a guard and escaped over the fence with two comrades, Recaptured by Germans and interned at Stalag 17-B until close to the end of the war, Sources: Frederick Solbergs son Andrew Solberg; filmed interview of Frederick Solberg created by Stoneham Theatre in conjunction with their 2009 production of Studs Terkels The Good War: A Musical Collage of WWII, Donald J. Sonnega Private Chris J. FacchinaSerial No. Sgt. 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), Served in 83rd Squadron, 12th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Force as a radio operatorgunner, On first mission, August 31, 1942, successfully completed assignment of bombing tanks and trucks on the front lines, Shot down and captured on September 1, 1942, while his B-25 bomber was on a mission over the front line at the Battle of El al Halfa near El Alamein, Incarcerated in several POW facilities in North Africa; transported from Tobruk, North Africa, by a Red Cross Hospital ship to a POW hospital in Caserta, Italy (near Naples), Imprisoned at Italian POW camps 53 and 59. Lance Corporal, Australian Army Corps2nd/28th Batallion, Address from Red Cross service record: Private First Class Claude J. ColeSerial No. These sub-camps sometimes held more than 1,000 prisoners, separated by nationality. Sources: Luther Vaughns daughters Judy Ingersoll and Victoria McMackin, Joseph MacDougall Serial Number37095302 State of Residenceunlisted State of ResidenceMinnesota U.S. Army, 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). 4 Carlton Terrace U.S. Army, Air CorpsHeavy Bombardment Escaped from Camp 59though the hole in the wallSeptember 14, 1943. 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Address from Armie Hills address book: Serial Number36200720 U.S. Army, Infantry Private One prisoner remembered receiving just a single box during the wars final eight months. The work of an Austrian artist who created four markers on the corners of the was. Moses was near Comunanza with a large group, including Gus Teel, Francis Thomas and Walter Simon. As elements of Pattons 13th Armored Division blasted their way into Austria, they found several groups of chilled, ashen-faced Americans in the woods near Braunau. State of ResidenceArizona Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Milton is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Corporal This address for Leslie Beer is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Leslie J. On approach of the Soviet armies in January 1945, was evacuated from the stalag with other prisoners Stalag IIIB Frstenberg/Oder. Royal Army Service Corps Roy Hatfields name and address (above) and the quip Hill Billy Sheep Hearder 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), Wesley A. Goettel Serial Number20705350 Serial Number39227259 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. 47th Infantry Regiment Serial Number34138090 William George Wales Serial Number32188999 Sergeant State of ResidenceMichigan See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Route 4 33090536is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. South Shore, K.Y. Warren, Ohio. Serial Number37042382 Special Air Service (British Special Forces) He was supposed to be a POW in Stalag 17, but when I searched the online records at the National Archives, his name did not come up. 412 Pulaski St. State of Residenceunlisted Serial Number16048446 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), Source: Raymond Kestners granddaughter Jessica Kestner McMahon, Everette L. Kidd Culpepper, Virginia Serial Number6906252 Staff Sergeant 0
Was taken by this unit down the Adriatic Sea coast to the British 8th Army at Bari, Italy, on October 25, 1943. 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). Only the nearness of freedom drove many on. State of Residenceunlisted U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Beer State of Residenceunlisted Serial Number20701801 Serial Number32105474 U.S. Army, Infantry E Company Hartwell R. Harris 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 H. Williams Corporal Franklin E. Swints name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. George Reesclaf (or Reuschak), Jr.s name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Sergeant U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Division 72nd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery State of ResidenceNorth Carolina To free-spirited airmen accustomed to seeing only the pastoral outlines of the German landscape or the tops of cities, the ominous, tightly-pressed surroundings were troubling. WX4445 852 Muhlenberg St. This Charles A. Perkins, however, is listed as being from Illinois on his enlistment records. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Private In Clifford Houbens address list, John is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Force Serial Number13078670 5th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment In the middle of the beautiful Austrian countrysideof rolling hills and thick forest stood an ugly placethe sprawling eyesore and den of misery known as Stalag Luft 17-B. (About 200 sick prisoners stayed behind, and were liberated by Russians on May 9.) This address for Ronald Streatfield is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Ronald A. Streatfield 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), Alec. Hill Billy Sheep Hearder [sic]. T/Sgt. 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. Novotny Serial Number12066110 U.S. Army, InfantryRifle State of ResidenceWest Virginia 1701 Giulford Ave. Serial Number18120685 4 Carr Lane Captured at Battle of Longstop Hill, Tunisia, December 23, 1942, Henry Kane and Richard Kane (below) were brothers. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Reached Allied lines, Charles K. Simmons Private First Class Knoxville, Illinois. State of ResidencePennsylvania U.S. Army, Armored U.S. Army, InfantryRifle U.S. Army, Infantry Sioux City, Iowa Gus Teels name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Staff Sergeant John Sikorskis name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Dundee, Angus Alvie D. Cochran Private State of Residenceunlisted Royal Army Medical Corps Source: G. H. Birds name and address is recorded in Charles Simmons prison camp 1943 calendar and address book. 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 Repatriatedno camp listed). Corporal State of ResidenceIndiana State of ResidencePennsylvania Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) State of ResidenceIowa R.R. [United Kingdom]. U.S. Army, Infantry The address above is from that list. Arnold L. Anderson See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. 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. Corcoran 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 but no camp listed). 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), Alfred T. Yax 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. Double rows of barbed-wire fencing surrounded low-slung prison barracks and a dirt compound. I was thrown through its rickety door before I could even react. Service Number1712593 Serial Number10600080 After their time in Camp 59, the men were sent to separate camps and, after escape from their respective camps, both made their way north to freedom in Switzerland. East Surrey Regiment, British Army Private Reached Allied lines, Gilbert D. Loonam Address from Armie Hills address book: [England, United Kingdom], Daniel M. Jorgensen Sunny Side Captured December 4, 1942Tebourba, Tunisia William R. Walter U.S. Army, Air CorpsMedium Bomber (B25, B26) 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), Source: Edwins great grandson John Garner, A. 0000003632 00000 n
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 Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich 48-11). U.S. Army, InfantryRifle 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment 77 Weetamoe Street Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 Emerson Street Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 with Joseph Olinix, George Tucker, James Snodgrass, James Martelli, and James Kingsley. T. H. Knight 11 Clent Avenue West 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), Ivan J. Robinson Source: U.S. National Archives, World War II Prisoners of War Data Files, documenting the period December 7, 1941November 19, 1946 Serial Number38064103 U.S. Army, InfantryRifle U.S. Army, Infantry Private 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) Private Left Waist Gunner
Gunner U.S. Army, InfantryRifle The school was held in a building containing the fiction and technical libraries. The destination of the column was a Russian prison camp 4 kilometers north of Braunau. Serial Number33186173 After one and a half years, was transported to Hamburg, Germany; then moved to Cologne, Germany, Liberated on April 18, 1945 by a British tank battalion, Sources: American Ex-Prisoners of War biography and Frank Mancinellis daughter, Irene Mancinelli, Joe C. Mandese This address for Jack Davies is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Jack Davies U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Malone, N.Y. [New York]. State of ResidenceNew Mexico Private First Class Staff 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 from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Martin G. Wethington Corporal See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. State of Residenceunlisted 0000009112 00000 n
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Waverly Park Glam. Service Number5495088 State of ResidenceMassachusetts 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 State of ResidenceDelaware 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. Corporal State of ResidenceAlabama Private First Class Harold S. ArnesonSerial No. State of ResidenceKentucky Private John T. Davis Serial Number33246928 Captured December 3, 1942Bizerta, Tunisia Jacob Stiners 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). This address for Eric Brown is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Eric Brown State of ResidenceIndiana Were given to soldiers names are missing from the Stalag with other prisoners Stalag IIIB Frstenberg/Oder II POWs list Edmund. Gravier 2217 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), Thaddeus A. Sopel England. 2006 7th St. Signalman endstream
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Did Anthony Fiore escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 2B Hammerstein? Service Number3196639 Serial Number32423241 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 F. Jones 15 Ancill Street [Indiana]. 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 Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st Buffs, Captured in North Africa on December 15, 1941. CHESSELLARNOLDPRE No 7264690. James W. Tasiopulos State of ResidenceIllinois 607 6th Street U.S. Army, Infantry Private C. Cowley Rifleman 6142045 Serial Number37073082 State of ResidenceNew York Tex Reome 13023638is 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 CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Robert J. Noah It was their first encounter with Nazi Germanys tormented, mostly Jewish political prisoners. 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), Arnold Chessell Serial Number12005280 U.S. Army, Infantry 17 Linden Avenue Serial Number36160842 Private Service Number5774137 Grimsby [North East Lincolnshire] Serial Number17028052 U.S. Army, InfantryParachute Division New Road U.S. Army, Field ArtilleryArmored 105 MM Howitzer Serial Number12005278 State of Residenceunlisted [Wisconsin] Private First Class James Guillary [Guillory]Serial No. Corporal 
Private Corporal Fred Chilton and Norman Davison were sent to North Africa on the same boat, were captured together in Libya in April 1940, and were transferred from camp to camp together, eventually ending up in Camp 59. Kalgoorie U.S. Army, InfantryRifle His enlistment records indicate that he is from Bristol County, Rhode Island. R.R. Reached Allied lines, Donald F. Turner Sullivan, Ind. 202 5th Ave. N.E. Patrick Cahills address is from an official notification of his capture to his parents. Guss Teel and Francis A. Thomas escaped Camp 59 together on September 14, 1943; both men were sheltered by Italians and were repatriated in June 1944. Private First Class Alvie D. CochranSerial No. Serial Number39186606 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 Savageau Serial Number16037380 Serial Number6131066 
Houston,Tex. Harold Arneson 7 Leicester Street 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), Michael J. Rotunno U.S. Army, InfantryRifle U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Hymer Roger Lee. Private While he was stationed in Massachusetts he married; the address of Lowell, Massachusetts in Luther Shields playing card deck is the address of the newlyweds before Clifford went overseas. U.S. Army, Infantry State of Residenceunlisted [Texas]. For the quickly thinning American ranks, the average daily menuwhich German officials, not the prisoners, chose to reduce when Red Cross parcels were distributedconsisted of warm water in the morning (which many men used to make coffee), a few crusts of dark bread of dubious preparation in the afternoon, and a dinner of pitifully thin soup of perhaps potato or rutabaga, but more often fish heads and other assorted discards. 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. U.S. Army, Infantry The address above is from that list. State of Residenceunlisted Warren Culver Corporal NX10180 Johnstown, Pa. [Pennsylvania]. State of ResidenceIowa State of ResidenceMissouri 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 from Stalag 3B Furstenberg Brandenburg, Prussia (Also KDOS [USA] #1-5; ARB BTNS 225-255) 52-14). Service Number5732581 State of ResidenceTexas 272 0 obj<>stream
Service Number1707955 Prisoners often bartered with one another for supplies. New Marion, Ind. John A. Allen Brooklyn, New York, Third Regiment 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 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15), Shot down while on a bombing mission in the Mediterranean, Interned at Camp 59 for three months; made friends with a guard and escaped over the fence with two comrades, Recaptured by Germans and interned at Stalag 17-B until close to the end of the war, Sources: Frederick Solbergs son Andrew Solberg; filmed interview of Frederick Solberg created by Stoneham Theatre in conjunction with their 2009 production of Studs Terkels The Good War: A Musical Collage of WWII, Donald J. Sonnega Private Chris J. FacchinaSerial No. Sgt. 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), Served in 83rd Squadron, 12th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Force as a radio operatorgunner, On first mission, August 31, 1942, successfully completed assignment of bombing tanks and trucks on the front lines, Shot down and captured on September 1, 1942, while his B-25 bomber was on a mission over the front line at the Battle of El al Halfa near El Alamein, Incarcerated in several POW facilities in North Africa; transported from Tobruk, North Africa, by a Red Cross Hospital ship to a POW hospital in Caserta, Italy (near Naples), Imprisoned at Italian POW camps 53 and 59. Lance Corporal, Australian Army Corps2nd/28th Batallion, Address from Red Cross service record: Private First Class Claude J. ColeSerial No. These sub-camps sometimes held more than 1,000 prisoners, separated by nationality. Sources: Luther Vaughns daughters Judy Ingersoll and Victoria McMackin, Joseph MacDougall Serial Number37095302 State of Residenceunlisted State of ResidenceMinnesota U.S. Army, 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). 4 Carlton Terrace U.S. Army, Air CorpsHeavy Bombardment Escaped from Camp 59though the hole in the wallSeptember 14, 1943. 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