POW: 1Lt Robert D. Peterson - Stalag Luft I

2LT Robert Dea Peterson Jr.
WWII POW Journal - Stalag Luft 1 - Barth, Germany

429th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy)
2nd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, Foggia, Italy
B-17F "Lydia Pinkham" - Aircraft Serial # 42-5409

Order of OKW: [OKW (Germany's Armed Forces High Command), the organization responsible for enforcing the Geneva Convention, would not take responsibility for enemy soldiers until they had been placed in a permanent POW camp. The time period between capture and placement in a permanent camp, then, was particularly treacherous for POWs. Often this depended on whether the soldiers were taken prisoner by the SS or the German Army, which was less likely to abuse its captives. ed.] pick up nothing dropped by planes. Same announcement was given in Italian POW camps 4 days prior to Italian capitulation. 108s in training overhead. Beginners often losing wingmen in the maneuvers. [During the winter 44/45 we built a rink. The skates were ones you tied to your shoes. The Goons took the skates away as someone used them to make wire cutters. In the summer there were some good ball games. There were one or two U.S. professional players and the guards allowed us to go over the warning wire for the long hits. They even threw one ball back that was hit over the fence. Jim McIntosh]

Fellow from North compound broke his leg playing football. He gets into Dr. Nichols clutches and when he leaves the hosp. he also has had an appendectomy and a circumcision. [The big thing the English doctor did was to circumcise the airmen. "You can't use it, so it's a good time for a trim," he'd say. I, Witness to History - Dr. Edgar Moore]

Bud's ____ get the O.K. He sells the caricature of a luscious girl for 2 squares of D-Bar. Radio beams send an extra letter in their call signal if the home station's visibility is below the minimum. Same for radio stations. Songs: Stardust, Moonlight Becomes You, Road to Morocco, Lets Dance, Dear Mom, Black Magic. Theodore N. Vail - organized Bell Telephone, Joseph Fels - soap , J.E. Powers - advertising

Spring Onions, 1942 Duncan McGuffie, Falver & Falver Ltd., 24 Russell Sq. London Market Gardening. The Countryman, Idburry, Kingham, Oxford, Agriculture Journal. Frost got 2 right hand boxing gloves in parcel. The Flying Priest over the Artic Father Paul Schulte, Harper & Bros. 1940 – Schulte. Flew Stinson Reliant [light single engine aircraft] to Catholic Missions North of Hudson Bay - Oiyia Oiyia Oiyia

[aircraft names] Bang-Bang "No Guts", Zoot Ship, Scatter Brains, Boogie-Woogie Bird, Buzz Boys, Byrd Slow Freight. Someone's been carrying coal in my towel.

Tucson is a well laid out town. I don't know who laid it out but I sure do know its dead. Walking down street and girl yelled to me "Come up here and I'll give you something you've never had before." What's that leprosy? She'd been in the place two years before she found out that the other girls were getting paid. Walking in park: "Some park, Some night, Some bench, Some grass, some dew. She answered with a clap, "But I don't". Spreading the bushes happened to step on a masculine back and then a feminine voice answered "Thank you" Menu: noodle soup, chicken pie, apple strudel, and stomach pump, all for .35 [cents]

Discussions: Can Congress with bare majority override the Presidents third veto.

Room had to decide who out of 16 would have to move to new compound. Had secret voting unpopularity contest. 4 men with the most votes had to go.

Cato did not think himself born for himself only, but for all mankind.

Fuel issue reduced from 600 boxes to 200 and coke instead of coal. One fire a day, at night for the evening meal. No toast otherwise. Bill serves H and Cy gets a "D" from the hall. It all goes to make fuel. Did the dirty work at noon when there is less chance of being disturbed. Boomerang being thrown out on the sports field. Kriegies out walking, talking their spin, had to keep a close eye to keep from being clobbered. Poem - Bomber Pilots Sometimes Pray. Abernathy says the Englishman caught with unauthorized food had been stealing personal parcels. Jack Hardin & his 3 roommates moved out and replaced by 2 limeys. Block six has many rooms with only six men.

[1 Jan 1945] xxx-ing of 1/4 [7/40] of parcel for meals arrived - psow. Mumps in room 2, no isolation ward in hospital, so quarantine room. She's a good looking picture and what a frame. Scholossberg's Show - Psychoanalysis office, Typical Audience, Barber Shop, xxx-steak winner Barracks water and blue mold on walls

Jan 1st [1945] Seven German officers removed. Supposedly for being too friendly with us. Openings in warning wire of sports field closed. 40 watt bulbs for the rooms. Increase numbers by 1/3 Salt is being rationed. Fried sauerkraut

Feb 7 [1945] Meakin - Mayor Hague's contribution to the war effort. "Are we still here, yet?" Floustered or flawestered. "I feel sick" Slob, vendor, organ grinder.

Feb 7 [1945] - 1500 sergeants arrive from Luft 4 [Gross Tychow at 53-55 North latitude, 16-15 East longitude]. Approximately 15,000 were there. Some were originally from Heidurew. [Heydekrug, Stalag Luft VI at 55-21 North latitude, 21-29 East longitude. Now named Šilute ,40 kilometers Northwest of Tilsit, now named Sovetsk, Russia] Evacuated by boat to Stettin and then double time 5 miles to camp. Trip here took 8 days, 6 from their camp to and thru Stettin and two days to here. Overall distance 240 miles. Very hungry, very lousy, very tired. No beds in blocks. No lights, no utensils. Protecting Power coming soon so we start having lights again. [ From “The Death March”, “Lest We Forget” by John Frisbee: Some 1500 of the POWs, who were not physically able to walk, were sent by train to Stalag Luft 1 Reference B24.net ]

Monday Feb 12 [1945] I'm cook on the new system. Main meal around 2 only we are cooking with coke and I'm lucky to serve before roll call.

As of Feb 4, 1945 -- Issue is per week [German POW Food Ration]

	Old	New
Meat	250	220
Bread	2225	1960
Sugar	175	155
Cheese	35	30
Potatoes	500	470
Barley	65	57
Dry Veg	80	70
Peas	100	90
White Bd	300	250

12 ½ reduction 1/7 of loaf per day per man

Pay $1 = 2.5 R.M
2nd 72 R.M.
1st 81
Cap. 96
Maj. 108
LCol 120
Col 150

[The Geneva Convention called for POWs to be "paid" an amount equal to the amount earned by the same military rank of the host power. This "pay" was transferred to the German government by the "protecting power". The Nazi's deposited all the POW "pay" in an "account". The Nazi's then charged the POWs for everything they consumed (razor blades, soap, toothpaste) or "damaged" while confined. ed.]

Changed March 1945

2nd 50 = 20 doll
1st 75 = 30 doll
Cap 100 = 40 doll

Room ten has starved for a couple of days so they decided to use their 3 Kraft dinners. McElreth takes pan to Dolgen takes Woodrow Rose's KP for 2 months Dec-Jan and then Rose does it until this camp goes. Then Rose moves into another room. 17 men in the old room and six in the new. He has to get coal and other rations. Haaaaard luck.

All transfers from other blocks on alert crew to drain out spud house and move them. Meakin said, "I feel sick". Passenger in plane during rough bumpy air is bonked on the head by a suitcase and knocked out. When he comes to he tries to get out the door, as he believed the plane had crashed.

Working his way through Oklahoma University Fraker was the chief delivery man for the liquor interests. On weeks when there were dances he sometimes made as much as 400 bucks. Always he was careful to get rid of the pints and quarts as soon as he drove into town. Going to each frat house he would deliver the orders and be done with it. Only some of the other collegians began calling him up at his apartment and his wife was irritated.

Calvert went thru Benning Inf. School and was attached to 2nd Inf. Div at Fort Sam. Signed up and was accepted for cadets only he was 3 lbs underweight. His Major was against the transfer and sent him away as an umpire in maneuvers. Little food on the problem.

Skits -- Giving a musical piano recital with poems & side comments. German instructor & student. 50 D-Bars for one of the American G.I. Blankets. Jan 25 [barracks] are to move 11, 13, 14, beds and all to [barracks] 1,2,3, and put transfers there with straw for beds & blankets. Topping, “the Roaring Gulch boy”, is giving his debtors a chance to pay him off in D-Bars. One per twenty-five buts. Eight boys in our room now. Bert (Jan 26) knew both the 2 new fellows. Total barracks strength is 207 with more to come. We lose a brew pot and bucket. Danby has usual troubles. All old time guards leaving (March 8) and in their place the Volkstrum, mostly gray-haired and stooped from 14 to 78. Girls guarding the cars.

Christmas Parcel 1944: Pipe, tobacco 1 , cigarettes 4, gum 3, candy, nuts, cherries, wash rag, plum pudding, turkey, deviled ham, Vienna sausage, butter, cheese, dates, fruit bar, homey, jam, photo & print, game, cards, bullion cubes.

General visited Sat. night and Sun. order for shift of Jews to N[orth] three "so that they can get Kosher meat". Gould and Sweeney included on the list [ One morning, in early February, at roll call, they called out a bunch of our names and told us to remain after dismissal. After the others left, we were marched through the camp to another barracks and were told that was our new home. I was in a room with 13 others - and after talking for a few minutes, we realized that we were all Jewish. Checked with other rooms - the same thing. We then realized that this was a Jewish barracks - we were in a distant corner of the camp, our own barbed wire, and sort of isolated. Rumors started to spread that, during one night, we would probably be marched out and sent to death camps and no one would know. Decision was made to notify the Geneva Convention of our situation through our camp American top officers (Col. Zemke and Lt. Col. Gabreski - both of these were "Ace Pilots" and our highest ranking officers). The process could take months, but there was nothing else we could do. 2nd Lt. Aaron Kuptsow ] [We had two Jews in our hut, both RCAF and we were shocked when they were suddenly taken away. We figured that was the end for them and were most surprised when they returned some few weeks later. They had the Star of David on their jackets which they had to wear during roll calls. Jim McIntosh]

[Jan 14 1945] I complained that I had not shoes until I saw a Limey who had two pair.

Calvert is buddy-buddy with Limeys but he doesn't want their blokes to get more than us or the fellows in his room will kid him unmercifully. Jam gests miss rationed. Then Limeys get American blankets before we do.

[4 Mar 1945] Depression or not the basic wealth remains the same.

O.J. Saunders
H.G. Meakin - 252 Sipl Ave, Jersey City, N.J.
Allie - 611 Webster St., Palo Alto, Cal.

Russians playing soccer - Mar 4
Flakettes as whaling sentries [Flakettes = female students at The Barth Flack School]
Boil and filter ersatz coffee
Ed Caraway - Shreveport
George Logan
Caraway seeds on bread
Shawn gets 10 lbs sugar for 2 cartons. Also salt.

Friends - You ask me why I liked him, Nay. I cannot may, I would not say.

2nd Lt. T.R Crowley - When I have, I look around for some unseeing "Bloke"

Roofing -- Light the new jobs at night. Telegrams to put on the pressure. Bonus at Christmas for employees, consist of non-transferable stock mostly so as to make employees more interested in having the business succeed. Take photos of prospective employees and very complete information on them. Intelligence test. Aerial photographs to show condition of roofs. Observe workman's birthday and wedding anniversaries. Suggestion box. Skits to train salesmen. Employees not used on one job alone. Advertisement novelty - use list of emergency calls on paper near phone. Employees play instruments. Have men wear steel toed shoes. Foreman know first aid & carry a kit. Cost of trailer and licenses. Sets of tools, job signs, water vacuum jug, paint brushes, ladders, stapler, blotters, match stickers, post card printer, Direct Mail magazines, roofing mags., and books, Model house showing various roofs. Flowers and gardens around place of business.

Get copies of guaranties, contracts, incorporation. Names of people in Louisiana who would be of help.

J.H. Lashley - 203 xxxxx Pl, St Louis Why attempt to prove yourself? There are no

Events [List of Events from 1944]

April 9 [1944] - Easter - 8th [Eighth Air Force] bombed Rostock [bomber formation] flew overhead
May 8 [1944] - First Mosquito of season [De Havilland Mosquito]
May 15 [1944] - Second Mosquito of season
May 19 [1944] - 8th Again
May 24 [1944] - 5 Mustangs [North American P-51 Mustang Fighter] - [Kriegies] went wild
June 5 [1944] - Rome fell
June 6 [1944] - Invasion
June 20 [1944] - 8th visited with small fry on deck.
July 4 [1944] - 1st sight of stars in 6 months
August 5^th [1944] - Swimming party

P Jim Bellingham, 156 Elmcroft Road, Rochester, N.Y.
N "Bud" Merlin Briggs, 1409 W. McKinley Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.
B John M. Hardin, 1130 S. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Park, Illinois
Top T George Weimer, 716 Bennet St. McKeesport, PA
Ball T Colin Smith, 298 May St. Buffalo, N.Y.
W.G. George Smith, P.O. Box 84, Campbell, CA
T.G. Roy Snyder, Main St. Macuvigie, PA
W.G. Leo Schumacher, Board Rd., Fairport, N.Y.
R. Bennet, Tampa FL
"Pete" H. Digilio, 502 Central Ave, Cedarhurst, L.I
"Buster" M.D. Fink, 47 S. Main, Castleton, N.Y.
R.G. Patterson, 4151 Braithwaite Ave, LA, CAL
H.S. Eich. Jr., 1939 East 34th St., Brooklyn 10, N.Y.
J.C. Kaliher, 6803 Anthony Ave, Chicago, IL
M.L Cornish, 2249 Shoredale Ave, LA, CAL
J.E. Carroll, 1177 Market St. San Francisco, CAL
H.S. Vogel, Route #2, Fargo, North Dakota
R.F. Eggers, 2626 Orchard St, Chicago, Illinois

Shots - British give the needle to you in the neck. “Brighton” in English Army means transfer to another base where disciplinary training is rough. A system much needed in U.S. Orchard is the kind of fellow who goes thru life thinking he is just like other people.

Picture parade in Block 6 without any pictures. "The women were the oldest creatures in the world, neither fish nor flesh but, like frogs, only their lower parts being man's meat. The bawd, like the hangman and the physician lives by the sins of the people. Jimmy Daigle stories of days in the G.I.s and C.M.T.C. A 165 pounder was spoiling for a fight. Picked on 145 for not bringing tea in a hurry. Beat him down and then asked if anyone else wanted to fight. Another fellow his size steps up for his defeated buddy. And he knocks him flying, and from out of the crowd comes a G.I. shoe connecting on his chin. It was the 145 pound K.P. Recco interviewed when first joined Army. He was well dressed and surprised questioner by answer of peddler to occupation. "OK, then I peddled diamonds. So on paper his is listed as diamond merchant. Henderson on first day thought dogs here looked like puppies; but each day they grew larger till they ended up about lion size. Westphall draws picture of his roommates at dinner with nothing on the table to eat. Cgecho sent to Prague. Sweating it out, awaiting trail. "A D-Bar now for a Christmas parcel later?" Jack, Muriel, Eich & Carrol move to middle compound. After learning no community cooking they were sorry to have signed up. D.F.C. award - Raid on Greece. Group does 180 in clouds and 5 planes collide. One damaged ship joined another squadron and bombed target. Kentuckian in Finish Air Force during 1st Russian war flew German 2 place sea plane to Britain after 1940. And then the time a dog became confused and bit the guard himself. Picture of ship exploding. Then below headlines "Miners strike for higher wages". "Race riot". Everyone who has a War Log book are in the throws of drawing and writing.

Ship Names [Aircraft names] Ours was "Lydia Pinkham"

9 Yanks + a Rebel	Fire Ball	Mitzie Green	Roughhouse
Alabama Bound	Five by Five	Murder Inc.	Saints & Sinners
Bad Check	Flack Suit	My Aching Ass	Sloppy Pies Willie
Bang-Bang	G.I. Sheets	Natural	Snafu
Baton Rouge	Gallivanting Gal	No Guts [No Glory]	Southern Comfort
Beautiful Girl	Gamblers Den	No Name	Spare Parts
Betty's Own	Gold-Bar Boys	O'l Bag of Bolts	[Ole'] Swayback
Big Stood	H. Giroud	Old Number 9	Sweaty Betty
Birgerte Girty	Hells Angels	O-Sixteen	Tangerine
Black Magic	Home Run	Paddy Gremlin	Temperamental Jean
Boogie-Woogie Bird	If you can read this you're too close	Panama Hattie	The Chief
Buckshot	Impatient Virgin	Paper Doll	The Duchess
Bugs Bunny	Is that you Coffin?	Patches Little Chuck	Tinker Toy
Byrd Slow Freight	Jack the Ripper	Pete & Repeat	TRFU
Cabin in the Sky	Jenny [Flying Jenny]	Piccadilly Commando	U.S. Delivery
Celestial Siren	[Hi-] Jinx	[Semper] Pizzdoff	Virgin Sturgeon
Chaplains Office	Knockout Dropper	Pizzonyou	War Bride
Chaps Flying Circus	Linda Mary	Pooedpooper	Wham Bam
Coil & Recoil	Lions Den	Purple Bull	Wheel & Deal
Couglin Coffin	Little Brown Jug	Pushing	White Christmas
Dame Satan	Lucky Strike	Quityerbitchin	Winnie the Poo
Damned if I Know	Man-O-War	Raunchy Wolf	Winsome Win
Dazie Dasie Green	Memphis Belle	Repulsive [Raider]	Wolverine the Seventh
East New Yorker	Miss Carriage	Rosie Rectum	Yuccas Mayas
Fertile Myrtle	Miss Mynookie	Rough Group	Zoot Ship

[more Events from 1944 & 1945]

July 21 [1944] Nazi party controls camp, 24 Strict orders from O.K.W.
Aug 24 [1944] Paris liberated
Jan 4th 1945 Colonel Spicer sentenced to death [ Henry Russell Spicer- A speech worth dying for ]
Jan 10th [1945] Quote from allied camp order "Issue Red Cross parcels will regrettably come to a halt. German rations will continue until they run out.
Jan 18th [1945] Warsaw fell.
Jan 19th [1945] All Jews removed.
Feb 27, 1945 Speaker into block

Tricks - board with nails projecting. Blindfolded and made to jump on bristle foot mat

Kriegie Meals - Toast 2 pieces, 1/6 pate, 1/6 am. Cheese coffee, 1 Toast, 1/3 spam fried, mashed potatoes, raw cabbage, 2 am. Crackers, spread made of 3 spoons Klim - spoon butter - spoon sugar - ½ spoon cocoa, 1 spoon water, heat until butter melts, pour onto crackers and allow to cool. Sprinkle with raisins, 2 toast, butter & jam, coffee, Spread (corned beef, pate, cheese, Klim heated) raw carrot, 2 pieces toast, Orange juice, boiled cabbage, potatoes, 1/3 can corned beef, 1 toast, 2 am. Crackers with sweet cocoa spread, Sandwich spread - can corned beef, can Pate, couple spoons Klim, little cheese, heat and serve. YUM YUM

A wise Guy Russians in Moscow. Description of German Guards. Mail received and when. Thanks to Red Cross and "Y". List of missions and details. Our Chapel Diary of important events. Cigarette papers. One page entitled "Jerry Rations" with nothing on it. Ersatz articles - furnace, pressing iron, frying pans, plates, ovens

Kriegie Log "Limey Lover Patterson"

Dedication - Red Cross & Y Parcels - Recipes, meals rations, -- Kriegie Slang "Barley Up", Cool, Parcels, Flying Squad, Enemy, Butcher Boy, Twenty men for showers, Roll Call, Harddd luck, He's had it, bags of hustle, Brew Water, next on the toaster, Room 3 Your prunes are burning, all clear, Spud boxes up, Come & eat your supper, Murph nix barley, Schissen, Verboten, New Kriegies UP, Kaput, Goon UP, There's the warble, Germans enemy under barracks.

Entertainment Feb 3 [1944] "The Man Who Came to Dinner (English) Mar 3 [1944] "On the Spot" (American) May 3 [1944] "Dangerous Corner" (English) June 17 [1944] "Orders are Orders" (Eng) June 23 [1944] "The Iron Road" Presenting Lily Mars (Am. Movies) July 4 [1944] "Hit the Bottle" (Musical American) July 6 [1944] "George Washington Slept Here" Movie July 28 [1944] "George & Margaret" (Eng) Aug 11 [1944] "Boy Meets Girl (American) Aug 21 [1944] "Andy Hardy's Double Life" Movie, Sept 5 [1944] "Busman's Holiday" (Eng),
Drawing of 17 with names of crew members. Daily routine (p 16 Monaco) Third Hole Rumors. Paratroopers in Danzig, England Invaded, 10,000 letters in today, Everyman [every POW officer] a Captain at least [POW promotion rumor].

Pay - Public Law 490, 77th Congress approved March 7, 1942 as amended provides us for all pay, including flight pay as of day shot down.

[24 March 1945] Meet success like a gentleman, misfortune like a man.

Shady Lane's orchestra March 24 between block 4 & 5. with Schlossberg as M.C. - walked into taxidermist shop with a couple of monkeys to be stuffed. Girl asked him if he wanted them mounted he said, no shaking hands. Girl was like a lister bag on legs. He could give pep talk to rabbits. Went up to house to see if Mabel was able, she wasn't but Ann can. Too many cookies spoil the brothel. Imitation of a light house - paper in mouth, turn head around an open mouth in lighthouse rhythm.

Sunday - noodle soup, horse burgers, and gravy - what a splurge!

Schlossberg Show [comedy show]: Waitress with big boobers came prancing over, leaned way over and asked for the selections. 1st Raisin pie, 2nd Raisin pie, 3rd Raisin pie, 4th Mines raising too. She's an artist on an upright organ. That hotel is practically an upholstered sewer. The rooms are so small even with the door closed the doorknobs still in bed with you. Halfway thru and the house dick knocks. Is there a woman in there with you? Yes, Good, I didn't think you were a sissy. She hadn't had anything to eat in 20 minutes so she was hungry again.

Schlossberg Show [comedy show]: So he's from Pittsburgh, that makes him an athletic supporter. Why does he put pineapple juice on the beans. He likes Hawaiian music. Silent pantomime of doctor operating. Buxom girl was walking along with six men. Three abreast. She liked to work crossword puzzles. To the fellow on her right she asked what is a four letter word ending in "it" that is found on the bottom of bird cages. He didn't know. She asked the other fellow who was the prim kind, he answered "grit". Answered she "Ohhh. Gotta eraser". Two rabbits chased into tree by hounds. One rabbit asked the other what do we do? "Stay here till we outnumber them". Applies to Kriegie camp boys.

Sounds: An egg sputtering in the skillet. Laughter & the voices of women. Next door radio.

[26 March 1945] Room 6 borrows ration tables and has bingo games from 2 until 4 o'clock roll call. Two cards for a pack of 20. About 40 players each game. Usual prize is carton of cigarettes (200). In case of a tie there are 150 cigs for each winner. Plaques, watches, tooth brushes, knives, in fact anything that could be secured. As a special drawing attraction a D-Bar was given to anyone winning 2 games in a day. Bert won ½ a D-Bar. Ollie is chief gardener this year. March 26 - planted lettuce, radish, beets, carrots. Makes a nice dog wallow. Tiny works in the German kitchen Sunday and they have pork chops, sausage and cheese, bread and other items - about double our issue.

[17 March 1945] Eshelby trade and finally secures 2 D-Bars. Eats half of one and saves the rest for another day. Search party comes and someone of them enjoys the D-Bar.

Search on Tuesday March 19 by order breaking in the Vollstrom. I loose my stamps and almost a page from the log book about “Luftgangster Prankster”. Air raid on Sunday March 17[18th] - one American, [2nd Lt. Elroy F. Wyman], from block 2 stepped out side the door unaware of the alert. Upon seeing the deserted ground he returned to reenter the block. Two roving guards saw him and the Luftwaffe guard one shot him thru the head from the side and rear! Died three hours later. [ Your Dad mentions a shooting incident that occurred March 18, 1945. Elroy "Roy" Wyman was a B-24 Navigator, a likable guy from Maine. We called him "The Trader" because he was always trading stuff, using cigarettes as the medium of exchange. I traded a couple of cartons of cigarettes with him for a nice warm B-15 jacket. One of my roommates was a good friend of his and Roy was visiting in our room that fateful Sunday. There was an air raid alert and apparently Roy didn't hear it (it was verboten to go outside during an air raid). He left to go back to his block and had only gone a short distance when he realized what was going on. He headed back to our block when a guard in one of the towers shot him in the head. He collapsed on the stoop of our block, was taken to the hospital and died a short time later. Roy had borrowed my B-15 jacket since it was cold outside. When I got the jacket back a few days later it was badly stained with blood. Truly a sad, needless shooting just six weeks before our liberation. Bob Dickson ] At about the same time a South African from block six jumped out the kitchen window to clean a pan with sand. He did not know that the alert was on. A guard outside the fence saw him and took aim to kill, but as Lt. Whitehouse was stooped over the bullet hit him in the abdomen.

[22 March 1945] Good news but you can't eat news. Fanning the fire to make coke burn. Meat pie made with a mashed potato crust, Rutabaga, and the meat from kitchen issue soup with Mustard, onions, caraway seeds for seasoning. Deeeeeelishous: Covering up everything so prying eyes will have nothing to see. Rutabaga jam

March 22 and it's been 4 months since we've had a normal issue of Red Cross parcels. 3 parcels since Christmas. Notes from the North Compound asking for fags. Bill making his knapsack. Wonderful noodle soup - Roy Knight - Pilot in RCAF expects to see Canada join the Union. He had lots of night missions in Lakes. V and G. Window. Bomber stream. Aspirins as substitute for baking powder.

[22 April 1945] American Senior Officers challenged by British to Softball and Soccer games. Softball contest was on April 22 at 2:30. Wearing winter underwear and some having curls they made all sorts of mistakes. British won 6 to 4. Americans couldn't bat whereas English could hit anything. Five trucks - 3am 2 British driven by Am and Can arrive with Red Cross Parcels & supplies. Came from Lubeck today & are going back. German guards. Sunday March 23 1945 Strafed by Allied planes. Screw loose in Hospital. Tells his guard that he only wants one shadow following him around. Another sold all his combined food for soap. He is drugged to keep him quiet. Padre Lynch & boy who escaped from ship.

Rope, entrenching tool, smoke bombs. Mortars. Machine guns with demountable barrels, parachute flares for night operations.

L. M. Selanders, Garnett, R.R. Kansas

[Menu provided by Robert H. Berly Jr. , 721st Bomb Squadron, 450th BG, North 3 1944-1945]

[Easter April 1945] Cigarette Bank, only allowed 1 carton, 6 D-Bars, 6 cakes soap. All over will be confiscated. [The Cigarette Bank referred to the Germans policy against "stockpiling" food and barter material. To discourage escape attempts they punctured all cans of perishable foodstuffs that we got in Red Cross parcels or packages from home. Also, cigarettes, chocolate bars and bars of soap could be used to bribe the guards or civilians on the outside so the Kommandant issued an order specifying how much a Kriegie could possess. Bob Dickson] Tom Cameron molding a copy of a spread eagle using ordinary sand and solder melted from corned beef cans. Trading with other fellows while on sick call so as to visit one of the other compounds. Sometimes sick parade is cancelled, or an identification parade might cause trouble.

May 1 [1945] Saturday, March 29 -- was my day as cook. Our Squadron are M.P. Lectures, Gollegan C.O. Sunday 30th Rusty cook - Lots of rumors. Some slit trenches. Monday 31st Meakin cook -Demolition at Flak school. Slit trench. During the night the Germans left and we assumed control. Meakin was on detail to get the prisoner's money, and in addition ran into the German officers liquor store. Meakin returned with a 1/2 bottle of Cherry Brandy and a good stew.

Tuesday May 1 [1945] We move to German barracks. Some extra beds needed. Guard Mount. posted to no. 15 which was the double gate with Cameron. Confusion pours, FF M.P.s special personnel, all wanting to get in or out in a great hurry. Garner makes us walk all the way around and my shoes are killing me. Night duty and a truck of dying Frenchmen arrive from concentration camp south of us. Changed to a tower (post no 9). Chance to sit down on machine gun mount. Cold, super cold. F.F. [COL Zemke's Field Force] on a hunt for von Miller. [ Major August von Miller zu Aichholz - Major von Miller was the Head of the Intelligence Section at Stalag Luft I from 1942 to Jan 1945. Major von Miller spoke perfect English and was it is believed he had been a pilot for Pan American Airlines based in Los Angeles, California (Bill Strehorn). He had lived in Santa Barbara, California before the war began and still owned a home there. He said he intended to go back there after the war. It is known that Major von Miller returned to Barth at the end of April 1945, and he is described as being the man waving the white flag to surrender the town of Barth to the Russians. In the book "Behind Barbed Wire" it states that von Miller was executed by the Russians on the 14th May 1945 at Barth. Helga Radau has found this to be untrue. He in fact, returned to Vienna, Austria in Oct. 1945 where he lived until his death in 1969. Stalag Luft 1 Online] Church in Barth flying Red Flag.

P.O.W. painted on kitchen, American, British, Russian flag on main flagpole.

Wed. 2 May [1945] Not much to eat in the community mess. All of us are dead tired. Speers lets me have his shoes as he now has a pair of German boots. Some of the fellows went to flak school during the night and picked up the best flying and other souvenirs.

Miller, Grupp, and myself went to Flack School and saw most of the main building. Maps and Fur helmet are the only things I was able to find. All the cars except for a few dismantled detectors in the repair shop. Colonel Zemke started the ball rolling. Capt. Beers (West Pointer), and one of the other Colonels decide its looting and starts arresting everyone he can find who isn't in his own guard squadron. 36 men are marched over but when name taking time comes only about 25 are there. Some even hopped out the window while a second john was taking the names. Rumors of a search and much sweating by various articles secured. All blows over.

As a drunken Russian soldier, who claimed to be a Colonel but was only a corporal, shoved a machine gun in Colonel Zemke's chest and ordered the Kriegies lose. The Flak School was completely cleared from the highest guard tower hundreds of groups of Kriegies roaming the fields and houses. See Pete Digilio in North One, Jack Kaliher, Cornish & Carrol. Open a door in the guard hose for rain coats. Down to road to watch Russian units pass going East to Barth. Of all the trucks seen only one could not be identified as American. Every ten wagons had a soldier playing and accordion, then every tenth was a cook wagon, and another wagon often seen was a fodder one. Russian girl medico. Buster drunk.

Thur May 3 [1945] Sleep thru breakfast. Roach goes to Zingst. Barge load of Brandy there. Americans come up and the Russians give them each a case. Clearing airport for our transports. Many bombs and booby traps. Pat on the FF [Field Force] detail , Rusty is in Kitchen. Cy on FF [Field Force] , Bill on guardhouse radio. Meak & Mon are on MP same as me. Guard mount again. Cooligan as always carrying his cane around. Changed to 4 on, 8 hours off, and MacKelhair, Hedglin, Helms, & myself are near kitchen guarding the holes in the fence. Alsaser at the large opening. Limey goes thru to keep his date with the lady in the Flak School. German Helvidg in Tower. Roast potatoes in the fire. Maj. says the fire must go, but that was after our 4 hours were thru. Hot chocolate when we get back. Only the Russian gift - steaks give me a monstrous tooth ache. Lying down my head throbs like a kettle drum.

Fri May 4 [1945] Box of prunes for breakfast. Mostly I'm sitting down. German worker to repair water system. French worker Georges Laffontt formerly in French Army. Escaped to France 3 times and served about half his 4 years in punishment camp. Where they received 1/10 of a loaf of bread and flour water for a days ration. At the camp where he has been for the past year they were making smoke bombs. Received Red Cross parcels for the last eight months. 1940 and 41 he received French food parcels. 1 can coffee traded for ten loafs of bread. Russians tore into the section where the German women workers were. He ate baked potato and gladly accepted the cigarettes. Returned at six that evening with a bottle of Aqua Vite and brandy.

And an automatic pistol & two swords. We cut for those, Hedge had low card so he received the smallest knife. Tooth ache starts on me soon after eating the first steak in 15 months. Many of the fellows are being ferried to the town by the Russians. Some have been caught associating with sick women at the working camp. All the coolers are full, now only the A.W.O.L's name and number can be taken. Some Lt. Colonels even, have taken off for the American lines.

Sat May 5 [1945] Ache, Ache for me. "C" gives a soap box talk. Dentist removes my filling and replaces with some cotton and muratic acid. Pork chops for supper. Nick meets up with Russians who fardo beers to have a drink. Water off. Wine bottles for drinking water. Lockers are made into latrines. Some pilfering of our barracks. Forms made by Germans on us are returned. Pat has been on duty with FF [Field Force]. He was almost shot by a drunk Russian terror trooper, the FF [Field Force] badge is mistaken by Russians to be a Nazi swastika. Pat had to smoke a cigarette to make the Cossack happy again. Wear black arm bands for morning the death of Pres. Roosevelt. Pat went to air field, 2 kilometers South of here and helped with the delousing. Removed hundreds and hundreds of mines (over 200 up till am early hour Friday) One jet ship was burned but many 190s and 88s are visibly undamaged. A few Storch's around, Russian General arrives for conference with Zemke. Russian truck with painting on it.

Sun May 6 [1945] Started to eat hot oatmeal and my tooth blew up again. I'm off to hosp for treatment. Dentist Cap. Stays in sack until I have pulled out all the cotton packing. Finally talk him into pulling it. Dr. Nichols and his insane laugh - "You aren't supposed to be sick on Sunday". BBC broadcasting over speaker in sick waiting room. About Dutch concentration camp - Dentist more worried about getting floor wet than anything else. Frost bite cases from other camp. Eat before the dope dies out. Spam (half a can). Russians have brought in Comedy & a newsreel of Yalta Conference. English narration with Russian titles. Dispose of 3 boxes of grenades. French riding trousers.

Monday May 7 [1945] Prunes for breakfast. Fraber, Ted Goodwin and others on cow detail come back loaded down with Russian refreshment. Underwear from George Parker, Room 8 block seven in a complete shambles. Russian dancing and concert group arrive in three American trucks and a confiscated German civilian car. One of the trucks was decorated like a circus publicity wagon. Posters of Stalin & Lenin, others of various hero's and battles. Concert included symphonic selections and Russian folk songs. Verdi's "Regiletto" was one of the pieces. Three Russian girls were included in the dancing troupe with eight men. Gave folk and Cossack dances. Two bands and a divisional band predominantly brass and the other was from White Army group - mostly European Russian and quite neat. 30 voices in the chorus and about 12 instruments including a balalaika. Every time the 3 banjos started to play they would cross their knees in unison. On duty at 10 in the guardhouse. Earlier at guard mount we were complimented by 3 Cols. for our efforts. Shoes and booty in guardroom, coffee and chicken detail. Motor pool with Chadwick, 2 and four cylinder autos, all on a miniature scale when compared with American sizes. Flares

Tuesday May 8 [1945] Ten O’clock post in front of old German Hospital. Some of the Frenchmen are beyond recovery. Walk thru Flack School in body with Cap Lyle Fryer, in all 24 of us from the "P's" on thru the alphabet. Refugees in some rooms, Cooking in the quadrangle. Pick up some armbands and "Flakette" pocket books [female Flak school students personal property]. Thru fields to airport. Assembly of jet jobs with slave labor. Huge field Bombs and belly tanks strewn all over. Pill boxes and slit trenches. Funeral of 2 Frenchmen. Electrified barbed wire. Italians outside the main gate. Blue Freedom Flag. Into Barth - Germans are cleaning streets. Blank looks from the Huns. Lutheran Church Concertest playing organ, cold drinks of water. Cruickshanks had a couple of drinks of wine (homemade with dregs) Nix Schnops.

Wed May 9 [1945] Blistered feet and prune breakfast. Jordan, Topping, Roach and myself, on an unsigned list, are accused of possessing ammo. Major gives us the suggestion that we take whoever is responsible out to the woods. Town Guard in operation now, ten men. Garner's 3rd relief on outside guard. Archard and I get corner near small boat landing. Blustery and smoky. No business.

Instead of issuing duplicate text books to students have various authors versions of the subject. Combine all Armed Forces into one organization which would also cover police, emergency, and fire service. Also all government engineering and forestry service.

Ideas - Extend the states to include Alaska, Hawaii, Philippines. War debt taken in land. Sickness, accident and injury, old age insurance. Unemployment insurance. Effect of heavy bombs on deep coal and metal mines. Incendiaries for forests and coal. Roofing - lack of definite standards on contracts is big reason why the homeowner must pay so much for his roof. What is at the end of the run way for two to three miles in case of engine [failure]. Land straight ahead. Remove waist guns when on ground for anti-strafing defense. Move capital to the center of the nation. Get Boy Scout manual and pamphlets.

Thursday May 10 [1945] Breakfast moved up to 8:20 What shakes. Nix wood left for fire. No trouble - a pleasure to lie by trees on the moss and grass. Tom Depp and instruments from airfield. Russian platoon on practice skirmish. Boating privileges, fishing boats.

Bud Briggs has the time hanging heavy on his hands. Capt. Beers and "Fishing & Boating Privileges". Nick retrieves picture post cards, insignia and other articles from place that has a sign in Russian -"Do not enter upon pain of death". Meeting in town square of Barth to celebrate the downfall of Nazism. Von Miller was present and applauded the Russian General who spoke. Ax bought a house in town for a package of cigarettes (Baufelstrafe 20 Meyer, Karl 2 story, Baufelstrafe 17-N). Girl from Cologne whose passport photo he had. Touring privileges rescinded just as our squadron reached the gate. Supposed reason is because some Kriegie on airfield stripped two Russian planes that came in.

Friday May 11 [1945] Couple of paper bound books from the library - sun bath beside the trees. On duty guarding the prisoners - one gave a fictitious name and then hopped out the window. When the Groups Pep. Pick up their prisoners our collection is nil so most of us lay down on the floor for snooze.

Saturday May 12 [1945] Drew cards for town duty just outside the camp. Frenchmen and Russians. Alarm clock & sword. German Kids stringing wire.

2 B17s approach from the South West. Happy glorious Day! AEF radio station gives with "National Barn Dance". About 1200 leave.

Sunday May 13 [1945] More and more squadrons come in. English and hospital cases leave first followed by South then North 1,2,3. Hunt for phonographs. Almost get out of guard duty. Russian and his girl friend are watching the Americans swim. Garner comes into Officers Club and catches Mon & me. On duty from 11:15 till 3. Women in the FF [Field Force] blocks. [On this date, 5-13-45. The B-17 I was on landed at Camp Lucky Strike. When I deplaned I was met by Fred DeSilva from my small hometown. He drove a fuel truck and refueled the B-17s. Ed Davidson, South, Blk 2, Rm 3].

Pete Digilio - Block 8 Room 16. Tom Allen bets $500, box raisins, 7 D-Bars and Red Cross box if he can eat all of an American parcel in 24 hours. He capitulates and 3:15 next day with pepper, marg., meat stew yet to go. Couple of pilots talk to us (500 or more) from outside the fence. Lots of missions, both enlisted new, excellent condition. Head gu in flak school. All girls de flowerized & sent south.

TO DO. See Major in Jim's room. Songhnesy. Theater Schedule -- off to Area for baggage. I couldn't carry first trip. Maj. Nichols of 15th Air Force was at Air Force Information. Thru Processing in about an hour. 5 forms and a quick physical. Weighed 158 with shoes and trousers. Kriegie recipes. Garden Fence. eater schedule. Gamache - 2nd Bomb [Group] out of Italy. Map of Barth Area. Abstinence is a fine thing if practiced in moderation. Drinking straws. Nut cracker. Lip stick.

Before leaving camp: Can opener, burn letters, whet stone, pictures, map, Klim tin pan, Shawn of supplies, clothes wire.

H. M close but no cigar [sketch of bottle - numeral 4] [sketch of cigarette] ZIGGERETTEN 87 Ivilan Strife - would not open and did not have a Russian permit. Lamp No 5 nar of church, NRCK, Gertrude - [sketch of boxes - Numeral 17] Barth 32 km - Stralsund [sketch in blue pencil]

Piro gets sick. MacIntyre, Cap, is in charge of our 25. Radio compartment for me - [Revival Flights] 17's have many improvements. Land near Reims, ride thru the town and circle again so we can see the cathedral. Out to the transit camp where we are supposed to get clothes & showers. We have a meal and then at 11 that night ride back to Reims to catch a hospital train for St. Vallery. [St. Valery en Caux - Camp Lucky Strike - RAMP camp along the Normandy coast] 30 men to a car and ten cars plus a surgery & staff car. Breakfast in bed, courtesy of the corporal.

Tuesday May 15 [1945] Boceau magazines and large size sandwiches. Not the fastest train in the world. French engineers believe 15 mph is the ideal speed. Passed German P.S.O.W traveling a' la box car. Nick trading cigs. Soap, shoes, anything for Francs. Get into RAMP camp just at twilight. Long wait for showers, delousing, and fatigues. Almost miss the bag, so many numbers being called out. More milling around as we wait for blankets and mess kits. Finally hit the sacks with only the inside of a sleeping bag. Shiver and shake all night.

Wednesday May 16 [1945] Plenty stiff from cold sleep but I skip breakfast. Physical inspection for lice. Red butter and white bread with chicken. Oh Boy. Other packets are leaving so we gather their surplus blankets, 3 for me. Sleep warm for a change

Aero Engineering - B-18 and new [B] 24 have separate oil tank to ensure feathering. Faster drained oil in the engines and increased engine life by 150 hrs. Use brakes instead of engines in taxiing. Kotex makes an efficient filter and is often used when painting planes. Most of hanger crew waltz around with Kotex under their noses. Penn oils contain less carbon than Texas & mid continent. Sodium filled valves must be buried as they are combustible when broken. Some diesels could run on butter milk. German diesels start on compressed air.

Pronounce – Daedalus, Icarus (IK a rus), Mongalfier (mont.golf.fi.er), Hilienthal

Thursday May 17 [1945] PX issue, 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Locate men from Coresslow and my crew. Only Delatte & Rees left from enlisted men of crew. All mine except Bennet are OK. Cut out article on "Fresh foods for Returning Soldiers". Purification water unit. C-47 comes in for some of their RAMP buddies.

Friday May 18 [1945] Issue of raincoats extra blankets and towel. YANK magazine and Stars and Stripes. Go bareheaded instead of wearing wool knit caps. German POW cleaning up the tent. Naps all afternoon. Through two mess halls to find out which is the best. Visit to P.O.W. compound. They had tents but lost them when we arrived. Makeshift lean-toos are all that some have. For rations they receive the same as we do except canned butter and meat in place of fresh. Landing strip soon to become operational. Tent movies are genuine sweat boxes. Accused of stealing a rain coat. Xxxx ball team.

Spell - countenance, niceties, etiquette, occurrence, familiar, illogical, didactic, inappropriate, premise, statistics, curiosity, inevitable, specially, separate.

Saturday May 19 [1945] Shower has become fresh out. Lloyd Crabtree of Daisetta, Buster Fink both come into tent that I'm shaving in. Learn from Buster where Pete's [Digilio] tent was. Missed noon mess, hard luck, over to Air Corps Liaison, Egg Nog & file. Colin Smith came by after down pour to tell me Jim [Bellingham] & Bud's [Briggs] whereabouts. Messing in rain U.S.O. show in the open and then sack.

Sunday May 20 [1945] Little variation. That night waited out Eggnog line for hour & half only to get coffee. Sergeants talk about life back on bases in England. Movie show tent half full but projection booth locked.

Monday May 21 [1945] Skip out of area to miss police up detail. Watch Huns work on mess area. Wash underwear. Sergeants move to headquarters with all baggage and then back to same tents again - much SNAFU. Rain and more rain. Fill out forms for awards. A-26 lands for a couple of lucky Kriegies.

Tuesday May 22 [1945] More showers throughout day. Sunny France! Lt. Col. Waddel Smith from GenArnold's staff has arrived to cheer us up.

No promotion, No discharge, and all kinds of good news. Eisenhower also here on quick inspection. He lets us know we will travel back double loaded. Same USO show on in section, across the road. Miami paper from Red Cross girl. Go to sleep as rain is falling.

Wednesday May 23 [1945] Over to air Liaison Information. See 16 minute color sound movie filmed by Clark Gable. Also weekly combat information film - showed Jet ships and radio controlled bomb. Two USO shows, one American and one French troupe. Movie, minus sound, Humphrey Bogart "To Have and to Hold".

Thursday May 24 [1945] Sleep late & skip breakfast. Afternoon over to D area - Hot shower with clean underwear and socks. Good deal! Repeat on Air Force Information movie. Supposed to stand Retreat. Watch North 2 boys play a Post Battalion Colored team at hand ball. Cold night Br Br Br

Friday May 25 [1945] another late morning sleep. Clothing at 2. No shoes will be available in my size for several weeks, corps says. I'm sure to get them in N.Y. Pat and Cornish are in a separate packet bound for 7 day delay in route to England. Blouse, green pants, OD pants and shirt, 2 poplin shirts, B Bag (new style) underwear, socks, insignia & ribbons, considerable number of things.

Saturday May 26 [1945] Sleep late. To hot shower in afternoon, but no water from pumping station. New Yorker, Flight and other magazines at Air Force Information. Thru line twice for Eggnog. See Carlson and Grady.

Sunday May 27 [1945] Over to clothing issue on a fitting shoe hunt; seems that Sunday is observed there. Extra chicken at supper, my plate ended up with about a pound of bones. Everyone in the packet nearly has the G.I's. More rain.

Monday May 28 [1945] Nice hot shower. Still no shoes, A-26 blows a tire and right gear strut collapses. Salvage crew cause more damage than crash did. Smithy & Pat are U.K. bound tomorrow, at least that's what they are being told. Chadwick & I are now on the list for England. Rumors that 2,000 more from this Camp will sail with the next convoy and then no more until after July 1. Stood in line for 45 min at ARC for a canteen cup of eggnog & cheese sandwich. Some of block 7 boys are back from Paris. Mighty good time. Took 4 or 5 hours hitch hiking. See open air movie "Kansas City Kitty".

Tuesday May 29 [1945] Another day just the duplicate of the others. Movie "Casanova Brown" with Carey Grant at the open air theater. Technically I'm on pass, but I changed my mind and didn't leave camp.

Wednesday May 30 [1945] Moving Day. Too much stuff for one trip so I have to make an extra load. G.I.'s again, hits most of us but not too sever. [G.I.s - Almost all POWs some form of gastro intestinal disfunction - See Medical Advice date 6 May 1945] Much dust while waiting around for our busses. U.K. packet is last to entruck. Hot shower & movie "Carolina Blues", Kay Kayser.

To get in New York or Bookstore - Duncan Hines Good Restaurants
Use Para troopers and air transport to help consolidate territory broken into by tanks.
Check N.Y. Times "World Communiqué" for Dec. 19, 1943
New York Dictaphone, cameras. Pat making crepe flowers for Easter.
Knife, pocketbook, flash, matches, pencil, pen, sewing kit, toilet kit, coin purse.

Purchases [things to buy in New York] Shoulder holster, pneumatic mattress, Waterproof matches, sleeping bag, Cigarette lighter, goulashes, Small toilet kit, photo case, insect powder, Scout knife, spray gun & flint, Squeeze flashlight, telescopic rifle, Files, maps, compass, sheath knife, First aid kit, cloth belt, candles, Small pistol, waterproof Bible, Flask, books & games, football, volleyball, Folding table, suitcase, folding water bucket, Portable typewriter, electric toaster, Photo equipment, kerosene iron, Gloves, stop watch, pocket warmers, Heavy underwear (wool), M-3 computer, Socks (wool), woven names, indelible pencils, Sun glasses, officer's guide, I.D.R. Pilots Information File, Radio, phono & records, tool kit, pressure heater, water bag, Mirror, clippers, scissors, kerosene mantel lamp

[Kitty Peterson wrote: Honeymoon

Our Honeymoon in 1946 The first mention of POW life from your Dad was on our honeymoon. I awoke in the night and turned over to be nearer Rob and either my hair brushed his cheek or my cheek did. He leaped from the bed and stared at me with a look I couldn't decipher. I was wide awake and almost afraid. I said "What's the matter?" He said "I'm sorry, I thought it was a rat that went over my face.." I don't think I ever touched him again when he was asleep.]

O.J. SAUNDERS, 611 Webster, Palo Alto, CA
H. G. Meakin 252 SIP Ave. Jersey City, NJ
W.R. Moon Macungie, PA Route 1
C:E. Major 2135 N.W.10th, Okla. City, OK
L. M. Selanders, Garnett, Kansas
H. H. Bittman 746 S. Normandie St., L.A., CI.
G.H. Parker 1532 Hewes Ave., Gulfport, Miass
D.W. Landtroop, 543 W. Comanche, Norman, Okla.
J.M. Carlson Box 318 Watertown, Minn.
R.W. Hatchett, 2548 Madison Ave, Baton Rouge, LA
E.M. Frost 701 N. Bend Rd, Towson, Maryland
N.A. Lorentz 3481 Terrance Ave., Wasbrouch, N.J.
A. F. Monaco 517 Holmes St. Kansas City, Missouri
C.J. Niemiec 1936 W. 38h, Chicago, Illinois
W.F. Q'Brien 395 Plain ST. Providence, Rhode Island
J.J. Daigle Lafayette, Louisiana
H.R. Neff 138 Huntville Rd. Katonah, N.Y.
I.'Sax' Marx 1414 Emerson Ave. Monroe, LA.
John F.. Cota 1034 Electra, Houston, Texas
J.W. Hubensmidt 18825 Inkster Rd, Texas
A. L. Emerson Route 3, Hamlin Texas
J. E. Bass 12916th St, Laurel, Miss.
J.C. Doty 344 Main St. Huron, Ohio
Don Delaura 132 JPomona Dr. Rochester N.Y,.
J.C.Jenson 1560 Alice ST. Oakland, CA
T.W. Mitchell 1621 Avondale, Charlotte, N.C.
H.P. Moses 501 First St. Vidalia, Georgia
L. M., Patterson Box 60, Brandon Rd, Jackson
R. D. Austin, Electra, Texas
W.E. Roach 1915 Bayshore Blvd. Tampa, Fla.
H.W, Fraker 3104 N.W. 23rd Okla. City, Okla.
C. E, Goodwyn 360 Hillside Dr. Rt 8, San Antonia, TX
J.W. Smith, dry Prng Louisians
Catherine Reeves, Pi Beta Phi Soroty University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 815 E. Washington St
Georges Laffont (French soldier) 4 Blve. de la Seine (suburb) Nanterrel (DeptO Seine, Paris

[Consolidated alphabetical Name list of identified individuals recorded in journal. Most of these Kreigies were confined in the South/West Compound. Block = Barracks. Some prisoners were transferred to and from other compounds as indicated. Room numbers are indicated when known. ed.]

Last Name, First, MI, Rank, Serial Number, Street, City, State [Block and Room] if known

Abernathy, Milton B., 2Lt, 809492, DC
Allen, Thomas R. Jr., 2Lt, 807659, New Jersey
Alsaser
Austin, Russell D., FLO, 801290, Electra, Houston, Texas [Block 7 - Room Unk] also [North 3 Compound - Block 9 - Room 6]
Bagot, Walter M., 1Lt, 679020, Louisiana [North 3 Compound]
Bass, Julius E., 1Lt, 742656, 12916th St, Laurel, Mississippi [Block 7 - Room 8]
Bellingham, James H. "Jim", 2Lt, 800313, 156 Elmcroft Road, Rochester, New York [Block 7 - Room Unk] also [Block 2 Room 3]
[Bellingham was in Blk 2, Rm 3 when I arrived 1-21-44,
then moved to Blk 2 Rm 7 on 1-25-45 where he remained until 5-13-45, Ed Davidson, South, Blk 2, Rm 3 ]
Bennett, R., Tampa, FL
Bingham, Joseph S., 1Lt, 820426, New York [Block 7 - Room Unk] also [North 2 Compound]
Bittman, Hyman H., 1Lt, 738531, 746 S. Normandie St., L.A., California [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Branum, William S., 1Lt, 802525, 2344 Clairborne Ave, Shreveport, Louisiana
Briggs, Merlin C. "Bud", 2Lt, 736754, 1409 W. McKinley Ave, Milwakee, Wisconsin [Block 2 - Room 3]
Calvert, Meredith M., 2Lt, 1284652, Pennsylvania
Cameron, Thomas L., 2Lt, 728625, Pennsylvania [Block 7 - Room 8]
Caraway, Vestal H. "Ed", 2Lt, 677185, Shreveport, Louisiana
Carlson, J. M. (J.K.)?, Lt, (Unk), Box 318, Watertown/Markville, Minnesota [Block 7 - Room Unk] also [North Compound 3]
Carroll, James. E, 2Lt., 735268, 1177 Market St., San Francisco, California [Block 7 - Room 8] also [North Compound 2 Block 9 - Room 6]
Chadwick, Ralph M., 1Lt, 690048, Oklahoma
Colligan, Robert L. Jr., Maj, 023095, N.Y.
Cornish, Merlin L., 2Lt, 735279, 2249 Shoredale Ave, LA, CA [Block 7 - Room 8] also [North Compound 2 Block 9 - Room 6]
Cota, John F., 2Lt, 674564, 1034 Electra, Houston, Texas [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Crabtree, Lloyd G., 2Lt, 751811, Texas [Block 7 - Room 16] also [North Compound 1 Block 8 - Room 7]
Crookshanks, Jesse R., 2Lt, 808793, Tennessee [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Crowley, T.R.
Daigle, James J. "Jimmy", 2Lt, 682012, Lafayette, Louisiana [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Danby, Jack E., CPT, 728350, Idaho
De Laura, Don J., 2Lt, 681526, 132 J Pomona Dr., Rochester, New York [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Depp, Thomas G., 2Lt, 821236, Pennsylvania
Digilio, Peter H. "Pete", 2Lt, 800646, 502 Central Ave, Cedarhurst, New York [Block 7 - Room 8] also [North Compound 1 Block 8 - Room 16]
Dolgen
Doty, John C. Jr., 2Lt, 803952, 344 Main St., Huron, Ohio [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Eggers, Richard F., 1Lt, 661820, 2626 Orchard St., Chicago, Illinois
Eich, Henry J. Jr., 2Lt, 797978, 1939 East 34th St., Brooklyn 10, New York [Block 7 - Room 8]
Emerson, Aubrey L., 1Lt, 678205, Route 3, Hamlin, Texas [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Eshelby, R. A., W/O, RAF, England
Fink, Meredith. D. "Buster", 2Lt, 735300, 47 S. Main, Castleton, New York [Block 7 - Room 8] also [North Compound 1 Block 8 - Room 16]
Ford, Cornelius W., 2Lt, 717196, California
Fraber
Fraker, Hubert W., 2Lt, 750133, 3104 N.W. 23rd, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma [Blocks 3&4]
Frost, Edward M. Jr., 2Lt, 798121, 701 N. Bend Rd, Towson, Maryland [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Fryer, Lyle J., CPT, 665675, Minnesota
Gamache, Robert C., 2Lt, 682023, Massachusetts [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Garner
Gillespie, Bernard J., 1Lt, 749226, Fort Doge, Iowa [Block 3&6] also [North Compound 1 Block 3 - Room 6]
Goodwin, Ted
Goodwyn, Carey E. Jr., 2Lt, 750192, 360 Hillside Dr. Rt 8, San Antonia, Texas [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Gould, E.A., W/O, 759244, RAF
Greer, George R., 2Lt, 803374, Bonner's Ferry, Idaho
Hardin, John M. "Jack", 1Lt, 674761, 1130 S. Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park, Illinois [Block 7 - Room 8] [Block13 - Room10] [Block12 -Room 13]
Hatchett, Royce W., 2Lt, 741556, 2548 Madison Ave, Baton Rouge, Louisiana [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Hedglin, Wayne D., 2Lt, 746339, Nebraska
Helms
Henderson
Hubenschmidt, John W., FLO, 001528, 18825 Inkster Rd, Michigan [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Jennings, William M., 2Lt, 682754, Indiana [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Jensen, James C. Jr., 2Lt, 671365, 1560 Alice ST., Oakland, California [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Kaliher, John C. "Jack", 2Lt, 667301, 6803 Anthony Ave, Chicago, Illinois, South & also [North Compound 1]
Kirby, Jack N., 2Lt, 671371, Missouri
Knight, Roy, RCAF
Laffont, Georges, Unk, (NA), 4 Blve. de la Seine, Paris, France
Landtroop, Dorman W., 1Lt, 664201, 543 W. Comanche, Norman, Oklahoma [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Lashley, John H., 1Lt, 729191, St Louis, Missouri
Logan, George
Lorentz, Norbert A. Jr., 2Lt, 676080, 3481 Terrance Ave., Wasbrouch, New Jersey [Block 7 - Room Unk]
MacCloud [Block 4 - Room 3]
MacDonald, Mohave, CA
MacKelhair
Major, Charles E., 2Lt, 669360, 2135 N.W.10th, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Malmstom, Einar A., Col., 287409, Washington
Marx, Isaac S. "Sax", 2Lt, 735623, 1414 Emerson Ave., Monroe, Louisiana [Block 7 - Room Unk]
McConnaughhay, W. L, SSG, 17020809, Kansas [Block 7 - Room Unk]
McElreth
Meakin, Herbert G., 2Lt, 682495, 252 Sip Ave., Jersey City, New Jersey [Block 7 - Room 8] also [Block 13 - Room13]
Mitchell, John W., 2Lt, 686264, 1621 Avondale, Charlotte, North Carolina [Block 7 - Room 8]
Monaco, Albert F., 2Lt, 682498, 517 Holmes St., Kansas City, Missouri [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Moon, Willis R., 2Lt, 680260, (Macungie), Route 1, Pennsylvania [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Moses, Harry P., 1Lt, 796427, 501 First St., Vidalia, Georgia [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Neff, Horace R., 2Lt, 809693, 138 Huntville Rd., Katonah, New York [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Niemiec, Cyril J., 2Lt, 665931, 1936 W. 38h, Chicago, Illinois [Block 7 - Room Unk]
O’Brien, William F., 2Lt, 673874, 395 Plain ST., Providence, Rhode Island [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Orchard, Norman M., 2Lt, 808128, Pennsylvania
Parker, George H., 1Lt, 397993, 1532 Hewes Ave., Gulfport, Mississippi [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Patterson, Leon M "Pat", 2Lt, 750675, Box 60 Brandond Rd, Jackson, Mississippi [Block 7 - Room 7]
Patterson, Robert G., 1Lt, 885162, 4151 Braithwaite Ave, LA, CA
Peterson, Robert D., 1Lt, 680289, Texas [Block 7 - Room 8]
Pogue, Jack, 1Lt, 885620, New Mexico [Block 7 - Room Unk] also [North Compound 1]
Roach, William E., 2Lt, 796736, 1915 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa, Florida [Block 7 - Room 8]
Rooney, Martin F "Pat", 2Lt, 694720, New York [Block 7 - Room 8]
Rose, Woodrow, Kentucky
Rosen, Leonard, 2Lt, 682514, New York [Block 7 - Room 7]
Saunders, Oliver J. Jr. "Ollie", 2Lt, 804517, 611 Webster, Palo Alto, California [Block 7 - Room 8] also [Block 13 - Room 13]
Schlossberg, Marvin E. "M.E.", 2Lt, 672878, Michigan
Schumacher, Leo R., SSG, 32361216, Board Rd., Fairport, N.J.
Selanders, Lawrence M., 1Lt, 680316, Garnett, Kansas [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Smith, Robert H., 2Lt, 740679, 700 5th Ave, Great Falls, Montana
Smith, John W., CPT, 2043710, Dry Prng, Louisiana [Block 7 - Room 8]
Smith, Colin M., SSG, 39236178, 298 May St., Buffalo, N.Y.
Smith, George C., 2Lt, 2056301, Box 84, Campbell, CA
Snyder, John A. "Roy", 2Lt, 062775, Main St., Macuvigie, PA
Speers, Richard W., 2Lt, 750226, Utah [Block 7 - Room 8] also [Block 13 - Room 13]
Stein, William G., 2Lt, 738669, Ohio [Block 7 - Room 8]
Sweaney, James W., 2Lt, 749108, California
Thom, George J., 1Lt, 742628, Wisconsin [Block 7 - Room Unk]
Topping, William H., 2Lt, 668836, Virginia, "the Roaring Gulch boy"
Vogel, Henry S. "Hank", CPT, 726859, Route #2, Fargo, North Dakota [Block 2 - Room 3] also [Block 7 - Room 8]
Weimer, George J., TSG, 13109242, 716 Bennet St, McKeesport, PA
Westlake, Bromby S., 2Lt, 657654, Massachusetts [Block 7 - Room 8]
Westphall, James E., 1Lt, 793571, California
Woodside, William E., 2Lt, 803099, Florida [Block 7 - Room 8]