Serial Number15059956 Source: Though direct written and phone contact with Frank Mikes, I understand him to have been an escapee from Camp 59. U.S. Army, Infantry Technician, Grade 4 Private If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. U.S. Army, Infantry Franklin E. Swints name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Service Number1137397 On 3 may 1945 the camp was liberated when six men of the 13th Armored Division arrived in three Jeeps and easily captured the remaining guards who numbered 205. These sub-camps sometimes held more than 1,000 prisoners, separated by nationality. Serial Number33114113 Edmond Petrelli 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 State of ResidencePennsylvania Food remained scarce. Private First Class State of ResidenceCalifornia U.S. Army, Infantry All the POWs present in the camp escaped en masse the evening of 14 September 1943; exactly six days after the Armistice had been announced.. I also found this marker that also indicates the existence of the camp, and what happened to the bodies that were buried here. SSgt. We learned that he went down on June 22nd on a mission to Huls, Germany. Serial Number12017070 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), Nathaniel Kemp Nye Oreville, Calif. [California]. State of ResidenceMassachusetts Did Anthony Fiore escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 2B Hammerstein? Serial Number37042309 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), Edward T. Dzierzynski 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 Sgt. [England, United Kingdom], C. G. Hooper-Rogers is one of 10 prisoners whose poems are recorded in Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling., Clarence J. Horton Joseph J. Freeborn was the radio operator and the flight engineer was Sgt. Lance-Sergeant Waverly Park [Missouri]. Serial Number34352271 Private John O. Everett in an interview said that William Helmley is from Savannah, Georgia, Escaped from Camp 59 in September 1943; William Helmley and Owen Frye were protected by the Marcozzi family near the town of Force in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Orville A. Higgins 0000001709 00000 n
10th Battalion, Rifle Brigade State of Residenceunlisted Bill Bergstrom (Traverse City, Michigan), was formerly of the 1st Armored Regiment. Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 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), Sal Trischitta 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), Francis Cecil Dick George Use the sites search feature to hunt for more information on any individual POW. Private I was thrown through its rickety door before I could even react. This address for Eric Oram is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Eric Oram 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment Corporal Severely injured in the war; died circa early 1970s, Neil E. Torssell 24 cold water taps per wash room. Private First Class Dillard W. AndersonSerial No. c/o Martin Funeral Home 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 Tasiopulos Corporal Ronald James Jim McMahon Serial Number6664729 All escapees were recaptured and held in close confinement cells for 10 days. 37073082is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Helmeted Nazi guards with machine guns manned towers at the edges, waiting to shoot dead any prisoner who crossed the warning wire that ran a few feet inside the fencing. Bod A few months later Soviet prisoners started arriving, mostly officers. %PDF-1.4
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Private State of ResidenceMinnesota Welwyn Garden City Source: Willman Kings son Joseph M. King, James G. Kingsley U.S. Army, Infantry Source: Robert Smiths niece Carole Procter, Arthur George Bell Royal Army Service Corps Serial Number35250761 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 Serial Number20701910 Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Milton is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Escaped with an American paratrooper and several British soldiers through a tunnel from Camp 59 on September 8, 1943 when word of Italian armistice reached the camp, and before the general escape from camp on September 14. . Serial Number37175260 Source: Henry Kanes son George Kane, Richard Kane 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 is listed), David E. Riding Serial Number12016278 U.S. Army, Medical DepartmentArmored Force Private Duke Street Serial Number6871722 All mail goes through Stalag Luft 3 and the delay is considerable. Serial Number12017540 According to Nazi ideology, Slavic people were regarded as rassisch minderwertig ("racially inferior"). Worley H. Priest State of Residenceunlisted Captured December 28, 1941Agedabia, Libya Serial Number12007294 Escaped from the camp September 14, 1943, Source: Charles Simmons daughter Trish Harper, John C. Simmons, Jr. 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. 11011529) from Rhode Island as liberated from Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12. Arthus Page wrote a memoir, A Walk in Wartime Italy (1995), (Information courtesy of researcher Janet Kinrade Dethick), Howard Palya In January 1945, he swapped identities with Frank Grey, an American POW wanted by the Gestapo for prior escapes, and helped Grey slip away. Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Marion is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. 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. 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 Sergeant U.S. Army, Infantry Transfaal, South Africa, [This address is likely Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa]. 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), Athol Gray Staff Sergeant U.S. Army, Corps of EngineersEngineer 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 Piceno Italy 43-13). Duard W. Payne Sol, Calif. [California]. State of Residenceunlisted State of ResidenceNew York Ray Blankenships 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 Repatriatedno camp listed), Louis J. VanSlooten State of ResidencePennsylvania Hollis, Long Island Mangum, Okla. [Oklahoma]. Address from Armie Hills address book: Source: Clifford Houbens son Wayne Houben, Earl W. Huddleston U.S. Army, Air CorpsBombardment, Heavy State of ResidenceKentucky number and were required to memorize it or endure severe physical punishment. Service Number884337 Arnold L. Anderson 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 indicated), George Shorter I did so because of my relationship with the late Ray Matheny, a former POW who lived nearby in American Fork, Utah. U.S. Army, Medical DepartmentRifle U.S. Army, InfantryRifle 0000002330 00000 n
Serial Number31068754 U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Infantry David E. Riding, Jr. Inglewood They might have laughed at the comfortable picture of their lives sometimes portrayed by the American press. Thats a 57% death rate. 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment 49th Battalion, Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery Serial Number32188839 East Surrey Regiment, British 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), Ray W. Dentler SSGT Joe B. Dobbs Left Waist Gunner John Fouts Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 1, Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 3, Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 5, Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 7, Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 8, Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 9, Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 27, Red Cross POW book of Porter D. Clemens, page 31, http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=camps&cmp=Stalag+17b+Braunau+Gneik, http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=camps&cmp=Stalag+17b+Braunau+Gnei, http://www.457thbombgroup.org/POW/POW.html. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Corporal Signalman Box 339 Their long ordeal was over. 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 Serial Number12018732 Service Number7586544 This address for Leslie Beer is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Leslie J. Camp 59 internmentMarch 2June 1, 1943. Private Private These agents appear particularly keen at confiscating American LogBooks. Francis Thomas and Gus Teel escaped Camp 59 together on September 14, 1943; both menand an British soldierwere sheltered by Italians near Comunanza. Serial Number37042466 523 N. 3rd St. 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. #1 This Charles A. Perkins, however, is listed as being from Illinois on his enlistment records. 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 H. Adams U.S. National Archives on-line POW database lists only one Charles Perkins who was detained by Germany and returned to military control, liberated or repatriated from Stalag 4D Torgau (Elbe) Sachsen, Prussia 51-13. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle The majority of them were American, but also included . 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: Escaped from Camp 59 on September 12, 1943 Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 Armie Sulo Hill Serial Number18117755 Charged with a crime and brought to trial in Camp 59. Private 32003230 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), Donald D.Fremd Gunner Private In Clifford Houbens address list, Jack is also noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Delegate lodged a protest to Kommandant in view of the repeated entries of civilian agents on the Gheime Staatspolizei (known as Gestapo) into the American compound. Serial Number37044192 Serial Number33136467 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. Freeborn as he was being carried to the hospital by civilians. Captured December 4, 1942Tunisia Paul Wakeland Private Private Serial Number34319757 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), Howard S. Delanoy Church Street Anthony Fiore To make prisoners miserable, guards would require all the prisoners to line up for roll call three to four times a day. Pip Cummings is mentioned a letter dated October 21, 1943 in which a POW only identified as Eric, writing to his mother and dad, describes the escape from Camp 59 and the actions of the men immediately after. 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), Olin E. Cox Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 [Kent] 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), George Crawford is one of 10 prisoners whose poems are recorded in Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling.. I did not find an Anthony Primac or Anthony Premas in the U.S. Archives WW II POW or enlistment databases. 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. Staff Sergeant Double rows of barbed-wire fencing surrounded low-slung prison barracks and a dirt compound. Serial Number39186606 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment Staff Sergeant 15 pr. EXTRA 25% OFF 4+ ITEMS WITH CODE 25OFF4ORMORENOW See all eligible items and terms. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Serial Number12017502 Serial Number34088215 Private U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Force State of ResidenceMissouri PP 11018 1- (17-19)-45. 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 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15) KREISCH . Private First Class Malone, N.Y. [New York]. Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article. Warrensburg, Mo. 8, Alfred Road John Everett is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Sergeant State of ResidenceKentucky Western Australia, Captured at El Alamein the night of July 27, 1942, Repatriated at British Headquarters on June 26, 1944, Sources: Ray Worthington, son of former Camp 59 prisoner Leslie Worthington; Red Cross service record, Leon Wuzzardo Initially used to detain the hapless prisoners of Germanys early blitzkriegs, Stalag Luft 17-B (Stalag Luft, short for Stammlager Luft, or prison camp for airmen, and 17-B because it was the second prison camp in the German 17th military district) was opened to American POWs in 1943. 1st Armored Divison, U.S. Army, Captured at the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid, North Africa, on February 15, 1943, Robert W. Nicholls State of Residenceunlisted Private U.S. Army, Corps of EngineersArmored (Divisional) (LogOut/ Tatsfield,Westerham Pennsylvania. The marching column was divided into eight groups of 500 with an American leader in charge of each group, guarded by about 20 German Volkssturm guards and two dogs. 9 Tannadice Street 1306 Main St. Private Private This village is located six kilometers northwest of Krems, Austria. 466th BG - 786th BS
Camp 59 internmentMarch 12, 1942June 8, 1943, H. J. Carey My uncle, Porter D. Clemens, was a POW here. 16000460is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. W. 6 London New Road Serial Number15054958 Les Crotty Keith Argraves name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. U.S. Army, Field ArtilleryTank Destroyer Private The translation says: During World War II, this is the site of Stalag 17-B prisoner of war camp. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Source: Arthur Freestones name and address is recorded in Charles Simmons prison camp 1943 calendar and address book. Serial Number31047316 U.S. Army, Infantry Serial Number38009720 Lake City, Tenn. [Tennessee]. Serial Number 13025138 The most noticeable is the work of an, According to the German governments own post-war figures. Did Billy England escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria? State of ResidenceIndiana Service Number7518016 Trading with the German and Austrian civilians became the main source of sustenance after the Rod Cross parcel supplies were exhausted. Upon arrival, the PWs cut down pine trees and made small huts, since there was no housing available. Serial Number12020395 As the plane began to disintegrate, Ray fell unconscious just as his plane started to spin out of control. The fuel ration for the week was 54 pounds of coal. 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), Special Air Service (British Special Forces), Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943, Sources: Article Britain at War: Initiating a POW breakout in Italy, The Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk), November 13, 2008; http://www.ww2escapelines.co.uk, J. Keith Killby is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Cavaliere Ufficiale of the Italian Republic.
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