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), Paul McLaughlin 5539 Beacon Avenue State of ResidenceIowa Serial Number 13049014 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). Serial Number33114113 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). U.S. Army, Infantry Royal Armoured Corps, Was at Camp 59 March 11, 1942 until June 3, 1943, Allen A. Coombs U.S. Army, Infantry Private First Class The following list of names are search results for Camp = 089, "Stalag 9B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-09". Private [England, United Kingdom], Source of address: Denis Crooks daughter Maggie Clarke, Lawrence Danich Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 with Joseph Olinix, George Tucker, James Kingsley, Carl Good, and James Snodgrass. Serial Number34121513 0000000948 00000 n Sergeant Escaped from Camp 59 in September 1943, Source: John Leon Turners son-in-law Terry Marshall, Felice D. Vacca U.S. Army, Infantry Camp 59 internmentMarch 3July 4, 1943, F. C. Brain Serial Number38153226 State of ResidenceFlorida Staff Sergeant 201 Ford St. Private Corporal 37073082is 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 Repatriatedno camp listed). Ray Blankenships name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Private 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), Robert Edward Albert Edwards Serial Number12017070 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Private Clermont, Florida, William W. Hurley Antioch, Nebraska. R.R. Service NumberT/164275 Royal Canadian Air Force I am grateful for the wealth of information they have sent me to share on this site. Private Private First Class Serial Number32180821 State of Residenceunlisted Private First Class Private U.S. Army, Infantry I had honor of getting the know three of the men first-handRalph Hoag, Roland Rakow, and Neil Rorssellthrough email, over the phone, or by letter. Captured December 4, 1942Tebourba, Tunesia Perhaps three weeks later, guards halted the four-mile-long column and ordered the Americans to make camp among the tall pines of the Leach Forest. 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 O. Everett Stalag 20b Prisoner of War Camp. Serial Number32105342 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: 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 P. McLaughlin Their long ordeal was over. Joseph J. Keeley Our Did Frederick Buske escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and send to Stalag 2B Hammerstein? U.S. Army, Infantry [England, United Kingdom], Captured in North Africa in April 1941 (possibly at Tobruk), POW in Tripoli and Camp 59; transferred to Camp 53 in February 1943 (with Robert Dickinson) and then to Stalag IV-G (Oschatz) where he likely was held for the remainder of the war, Source: Denis Crooks daughter Maggie Clarke, Leo A. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle 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), Edwin A. Wilcher State of ResidenceIowa State of ResidenceConnecticut Camp 59 POW Denis Crooks daughter Maggie Clarke said her father knew George Marsland. #2 37 Hampstead Lane U.S. Army, Infantry Special Air Service Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 Kalgoorie 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), Arthur Page 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), Michael J. Rotunno Private Was taken by this unit down the Adriatic Sea coast to the British 8th Army at Bari, Italy, on October 25, 1943. Rifleman 6142045 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Serial Number15045264 Reached Allied lines, Source: The National Archives, United Kingdom Service Number860452 U.S. Army, Air CorpsArmy Air Forces More and more Allied prisoners are being released by advancing Armies. Serial Number33088486 New York. 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), Captured in North Africa on March 18, 1943, Source: Jack Kirkpatricks daughter Colleen Nisewonger; 1944 news article from The Democrat (Johnstown, Pennsylvania), Jack Kirkpatrick Repatriated November 1943 by a British 8th Army patrol, Bernard Petrulis 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), Darrell DeCamp 141 Parkanaur Avenue Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 State of ResidenceMichigan Corporal 20705564is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle 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), Paul H. Adams State of ResidenceIowa 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 Sergeant State of ResidenceOklahoma See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. State of Residenceunlisted Private First Class Private West Hill Private Robert Dulac was hospitalized in Potenza, Italy. State of ResidenceNew Jersey Serial Number15088456 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. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Reached Allied lines, Richard P. Griffen 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 21 Chieti Italy 42-14), Ernest Ellis State of ResidenceGeorgia 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). Corporal Michael M. StermSerial No. Bailgate, Lincoln 0000002330 00000 n Bombardier Serial Number20705393 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). Escaped from Camp 59 on September 12, 1943 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. [Indiana]. Serial Number35166007 Serial Number13022149 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), Frank Hillman A postwar inquiry found that in less than two years of American captivity, there were about 30 recorded cases of guards striking PW [POWs] with bayonets, pistols, and rifle butt. Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 with Joseph Olinix, George Tucker, James Snodgrass, James Martelli, and James Kingsley. Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany Stalag Luft III Prisoner of war camp View all 34 images Object Number - UPL 36335 - "Aerial view of Stalag Luft III, German prisoner of war camp for air force personnel, at Sagen, Germany. Interned in Campo 42 (Italy), Campo 59 (Italy), and Campo in Bay of Venice (Italy). Service Number115227 Serial Number20416457 Sergeant State of ResidenceVirginia George Shorters name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Prisoners often bartered with one another for supplies. State of ResidenceVirginia Technician, Grade 5 Warren A. Culver Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16. 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. Bamberg Stanley Bentley U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Technician, Grade 4 391 Grand Ave. State of Residenceunlisted 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), Leo Denale Gunner Serial Number39302734 U.S. Army, Medical DepartmentArmored Infantry Armored Infantryman Brockton State of ResidenceMississippi He and a fellow escaper, South African Piet van Rensburg, met the Allied troops not far from Servigliano 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), Salvatore 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). Serial Number37190621 State of ResidenceNew York Serial Number37042309 Private British Army. 59.