U.S. Army, Medical DepartmentRifle 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 but no camp is listed), David E. Riding Sergeant Technician, Grade 5 Air Corps NCO's were held at this camp and they regretted they were not in an Air Force camp. 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 2B Hammerstein (99 work camps in vicinity of Koslin & Stolp) West Prussia 53-17. Corporal U.S. Army, Infantry Serial Number36215009 At each Stalag the German Army set up sub-camps called Arbeitskommando to hold prisoners in the vicinity of specific work locations, whether factories, coal-mines, quarries, farms or railroad maintenance. 440 Huchnall Road 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 11B Fallingbostel Prussia (Work Camps) 53-09), Orville Higgins 1944 Germany Stalag 8b Prisoner of War POW Postcard Cover To New Zealand . Serial Number37044192 The remaining 900 men were too ill to make the march and were left behind in the hospitals. 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 R. Roberts State of ResidenceOhio Gunner Corporal Private R.R. Serial Number39602619 Serial Number32003230 Waldamer Semmler Roswell, New Mex. While he was stationed in Massachusetts he married; the address of Lowell, Massachusetts in Luther Shields playing card deck is the address of the newlyweds before Clifford went overseas. 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), Emil J. Keller This address for Charles Holt is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Charles Holt Escaped from Camp 59though the hole in the wallSeptember 14, 1943. Serial Number33146482 What the Soviets were forced to endure was unimaginable. Reached Allied lines, Donald F. Turner 20701884is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Minnesota, Wesley Goettels name and address (above) were recorded in Ray Kestners Christmas Book., R. E. M. Gollop Private He awoke suddenly and had somehow been ejected from the plane and was falling at terminal velocity. Serial Number12005009 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Hill Billy Sheep Hearder [sic]. U.S. Army, Infantry Service Number6149568 State of ResidenceKansas Samuel E. Underwood - Theater Supervisor, S/Sgt. Bramley, Leeds On three occasions the men were quartered in cow barns. Sergeant Service Number6137771 G. Loonam Serial Number20701883 King U.S. Army Address from Armie Hills address book: Private State of Residenceunlisted New arrivals were often surprised to discover a system of government in the American compoundsa democratically elected power structure headed by a so-called Man of Confidence (MOC). State of ResidenceTexas Serial Number37207024 Private First Class Claude J. ColeSerial No. Serial Number35212601 Corporal Michael M. StermSerial No. Everett C. Shelby, Sr. 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), Frank E. Powers, Jr. Private John Everett is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. U.S. Army, Infantry Serial Number6906252 Starvation was a deliberate policy in the Stalags, particularly with regard to Soviet prisoners of war. As the war was winding down, the Russians were advancing from the east and the POWs were forced marched west, across Austria, and ended up at Braunau Am Inn, on the Danube. Returned home through Sicily, French Morocco, and via transport on the General E. A. Anderson American troop ship to Newport News, Virginia. Captured December 4, 1942Tebourba, Tunisia 1946 (Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15) KREISCH . Leroy C. David, Army Corps of Engineers from South Dakota, it seems this might be the same Bud David. Camp 59 internmentMarch 5, 1942March 3, 1943, Alfred Bowen Private Morris SciannaSerial No. Serial Number14052008 NX10180 Thanks to the fine photoshopping skills of Bob Penoyer, by overlaying the map on a Google image, you can see its location today near Krems, Austria, and more specifically, the town of Gneixendorf. State of ResidenceIowa State of ResidenceWisconsin Telephone 2541, Escaped from Camp 59 in September 1943 with John O. Everett; both men were protected by Nazareno Lupi and his wife for nine months (the Lupi family lived near the town of Force in the province of Ascoli Piceno), Ernest P. Lawrence Source: 1994 Directory of American Prisoners of War 1943 1945 Stalag 17 B Adams, Robert F. Adams William A. Caernarvonshire Object number: UPL 53605 - State of ResidenceCalifornia Private Bombardier Mahlon J. Address from Armie Hills address book: 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), Edmund H. Cote 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), Rochester F. Nettles See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Address from Armie Hills address book: They were given a new German I.D. Serial Number38074437 Alkcus Stokes Serial Number36052038 Free for 7 months before being recaptured and sent to Germany, where he spent another year in Stalag VIIA Moosburg (Germany), Stalag IVB Muhlberg (Germany), and Stalag Esdenmein Serial Number35040104 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment Service Number958853 Christopher J. Facchina State of ResidenceNew York Lowell, Mass. [Texas]. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle A complete public address system with speakers in each barrack inspired the organization of a "radio station" (WPBS) which furnished scheduled programs of music and information. A letter from George William Beer to Robert Smiths mother dated July 23, 1943 states that he was interned with Bob for two years at Camp 59 before being transferred to another camp. Lance Corporal Sergeant Camp 59 internmentFebruary 28May 1943, D. G. Bradbrook Private Severely injured in the war; died circa early 1970s, Neil E. Torssell State of ResidenceNew York 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). Back on the road early each morning, the columns dodged increasing numbers of rumbling German vehicles, and the wide-eyed Americans stared in horror as they passed living skeletons in striped pajamas with yellow stars on them. State of ResidenceNebraska Royal Army Medical Corps Serial Number18040453 (Machine Gun) Battalion Private First Class Private U.S. Army, Infantry 39602619 is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. The part of the camp where they are is under the command of an air force Captain, but he cannot act fully and receives orders from the authorities of the Stalag. Private U.S. Army, Infantry Did Billy England escape from Camp 59, and was he recaptured and sent to Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria? 38064103recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Private State of Residenceunlisted U.S. Army, InfantryPrivate Force Serial Number3957294 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), One of the 12 POWs who escaped from Camp 59 though a tunnel on the night of September 11, 1942. 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), Harry Stewart (H. Stewart) is one of 10 prisoners whose poems are recorded in Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling., Jacob J. Stiner For a total of 1913 POWs, it should be noting that with British Italian Authorities included other nationalitiesIrish, Canadians, Cypriots, New Zealanders, Australians, Poles, South Africans, Palestinians (2), Maltese (2), Rhodesians (1) and Norwegians (6). Serial Number12021601 Robert Brooks name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. 13023021is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Address from Armie Hills address book: Captured December 4, 1942Tebourba, Tunisia 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). Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Maholan is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. State of ResidenceNew York Barnesboro, Penn. State of ResidenceSouth Carolina PP 11018 1- (17-19)-45. Serial Number12021044 Half a barracks was the library, another half for the MOC and his staff, and half for the theater, a half for food distribution and a half for Red Cross food distribution and a half for the meeting room. Sergeant Captured at Battle of Longstop Hill, Tunisia, December 24, 1942. Source: Giuseppe Millozzi, Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano, Hilbert H. Balk Private First Class Private First Class Arnold L. AndersonSerial No. Maghull, Off Dodds Lane 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.