Prisoner experiences

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Miksa, Robert Breakout and the Bulge
Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] and his outfit [Annotator’s Note: the 745th Tank Battalion] fought through...
Seltzer, Arthur Concentration Camp Inmates
Most of the inmates of the Dachau concentration camp spoke Hebrew which Arthur Seltzer could somewhat communicate with...
Seltzer, Arthur German Concentration Camps
Arthur Seltzer reached Munich, Germany. The troops could tell the war was coming to an end. That was the location of...
Miksa, Robert Germany and Czechoslovakia
Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] and the 745th Tank Battalion passed right through the Siegfried Lines...
LaNier, Joseph Jim Crow Atrocities
Joseph LaNier was 15 years old and working in a nightclub when an incident happened in Columbus [Annotator’s Note:...
Milkis, Abe Reflections
Abe Milkis found the German troops to be good fighters. At the end, the enemy soldiers were just a bunch of young kids...
Livaudais, James Reflections
James Livaudais saw that the German troops in Ludwigslust, Germany tried their best not to be taken prisoner by the...
Morgan, George Returning Home
George Morgan mentioned Kauffman as being the only superintendant of the Naval Academy who followed his father in that...
Dymnicki, Francis Returning Home
Francis Dymnicki boarded a ship in England right after V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] to...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 12
Lyle Bouck thought about escaping twice. Reid [Annotators Note: Bouck’s friend Matt Reid] and Bouck were on a detail...
Church, Ray Segment 12
1 day a train loaded with bomb shells came into the camp and as it came through the camp a routine safety check found a...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 13
They were putting the gas into the vehicles that were selected to make the rest of the trip. Lyle Bouck recalled seeing...
Church, Ray Segment 13
Church was able to keep his wits about him during his prisoner experience because every man he was with was in the same...
Sabol, Emil Segment 2
Sabol was flying at 28,500 feet when he was shot down. He had heard about other guys being shot at by fighter planes on...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 2
At first, Paluch was attached to the 1st Army and was then transferred to the 3rd Army. When they got to the Hurtgen...
Church, Ray Segment 2
Church did not know what to expect when he surrendered. There was about 5000 troops with over 4500 backups. There were...
Kawamoto, Yukio Segment 2
[Annotators Note: Yukio Kawamoto served in the army as a Japanese interpreter with the 37th Infantry Division in the...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 3
The guys who captured them were about in their 30s.The SS men put them into the field. Eventually the SS men circled...
Church, Ray Segment 3
1 of the men working with Church was hard headed and clearly unhappy with their current predicament. When they were...
Corbin, Robert "Bob" Segment 3
They were taken across the Rhine River on a streetcar then put into an underground dungeon [Annotator’s Note: American...
McKee, Ralph Segment 4
McKee and Whitsell were moved to a woman's home until arrangements were made to travel to Paris via train. He was...
Weber, Rosemarie Segment 4
When Weber finished high school, she met a priest named Father John. Father John suggested that she look up his brother...
Baynham, James Segment 5
Baynham doesn't remember many details from his interrogation. He was accused of being a spy and was threatened with...
Weber, Rosemarie Segment 5
One thing that gave the prisoners hope was when the American planes would fly over and drop pamphlets telling them that...
Baynham, James Segment 6
Baynham recalls writing a couple of postcards per month. His folks wrote a lot but he only received a couple of letters...