World War II Prisoners of War: September 2014

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Red, Bev, & Ed in North Africa 1942

Red, Bev, & Ed in North
Africa 1942

Blanc Louis

Affecteux souvenirs à ? (With fond memories of ?)
Stalag IIB le 14/10/43
Signed, Blanc Louis

R. Olson, B. Pigg, D. Timmerman, A. Traupman, A. Stankiewicz, M. Trivette

R. Olson
B. Pigg
D. Timmerman
A. Traupman
A. Stankiewicz
M. Trivette

Standing by the remains of one of the assault boats now buried in the sand.

On our way to chow in North Africa 1943

On our way to chow in
North Africa 1943.
Cpl. Ivan Russell and jes me.

L to R:
I. Russell, "Chief" Youngbear, "Ze Count"
Von Taussig, me, Frank Sanacher,
and Buske
Everybody works
in North Africa
Ecole Normal
Algiers

Looks like a W.P.A. Project

Cleaning a machine
gun in North Africa
1943
Looks like a W.P.A. Project

Sandman, Throckmorton, Russell, McCarthy, Taussig

L-R Kneeling:
Sandman
Throckmorton
Russell
McCarthy
Taussig

Standing:
Youngbear
Hartman
Buske
Henry
Capt. Herring
Page (Pigg)
Sanache
Nagle
Nystrom

Nov. 16
1942
No. Africa

Ed and I holding a piece of shrapnel from a German bomb

Ed and I holding a
piece of shrapnel from a
German bomb. It's
time to dig in when
this stuff starts flying.
Weight -app. one pound.

Window black out

L to R
"red" McCarthy, N.Y; "Bill" Tanasig, PA;
"Kentuck" Russell, KY; "Hoggy"; "Ed"
Henery, W. Va; "Red" Clemiston, Iowa.

Center Vital Gravet

Center Vital Gravet
Belgique
Prov. Namdr

France, Vital Gravey (Belgium), Belgium

Part of convoy invasion of North Africa

Front: "Part of convoy invasion of North Africa"
Back: Convoy 1942

To my friend Beverly as remembrance of fateful day,... but soon forgotten... I hope.

To my friend Beverly as remembrance of fateful day,... but soon forgotten... I hope.
[signature]
Sept. 42

a

Pvts. Ed Henry, Bill Nystrom, and Red McCarthy

Pvts. Ed Henry, Bill Nystrom, and Red McCarthy
Algeria, N Africa
Nov. 1942

Heard, Volberding, Pigg, Prescott, Lunn, Rebold, Novak, Huss, Beam

Coy Heard - Ed Volberding - Bev Page (Pigg)
Hubert Prescott -- Wilbur M Lunn - "Zarko"
Morris Rebold - Steve Novak
Delburt Huss - Reese Beam

Had Stalag IIB Censor
stamp on back of my copy

Pvt. B. Nipton & Cpl. Goodwin making a fox-hole in Algeria

Pvt. B. Nipton & Cpl. Goodwin
making a fox-hole in Algeria
11/42

Time for chow in Algeria, Nov. 1942

Time for chow in Algeria
Nov. 1942
Pvts
Carpenter, Henery, Batthow, Yours Truly, Cpls.
Hanson and Goodwin

Avec toute ma [?]

Avec toute
ma [?]
a mon ami Beverly
Pigg
[signature]
2.4.44

(This photo is of my grandfather's brother, Gordon, who was back home in the states)

Gordon
Oct. 42
Feb 20 Sfax Tunisia
Feb 26 Tunis "
March 4 Flew to Naples via Sicily
Mch 18 Stalag VIIA
Mach 23 Stalag VB
24

Feb 23, Left Luft 4 by box car

Feb 23, Left Luft 4 by box car
Feb 27, Arrived Luft 1 Hospital
Doc says pneumonia
May 12 - Left Luft 1 in B-17
May 13 - 242nd AH Sissonne
(Aisne) France
June 6 - Hosp. train to Rheimson
223rd GH (Marmakone)
June 8 - Paris 203rd GH
in C-47 transport
June 26 - From 203rd GH
to

to Mon Ami Pigg, P Bottois

A mon cher ami Beverly, Vilus

A mon cher ami Beverly, Vilus
Le [?] 1943

I never forget my friends from the states

Stalag IIB geprüft 25
I never forget
my friends from
the states
[unreadable]

9 Rue Malmaison

Boy Reué (Reuc?)
9 Rue Malmaison
(Nord) France

Antoine Dubs, Route de Laval, Bruyeres (Vosges) FRANCE

Antoine Dubs
Route de Laval
Bruyères
(Vosges)
FRANCE
x-note Wooden Shoes!
#23952 - Stalag VB -Deutschland
Mars 1943
Stalag VB
26
Geprüft

Wood shoes

12-12-43

Stalag IIB Gepruft

[same photo, different print:
Prisoner of war
Hammersetin, Ger
Ray Bupres
(France)]

Loulou, Vital, et ses deux enfants

Loulou
Vital
[?] et ses deux
enfants

Ferdinand, Belg

To my best friend
Beverly in souvent
of our captivity
in Hammerstein 14th [?] 43
Ferdinand Delineé
Vodelée
[?] Namur
Belgium

Stalag IIB

Stalag IIB was a POW camp near the German village of Hammerstein, Germany.

"Treatment was worse at Stalag II-B than at any other camp in Germany established for American POWs before the Battle of the Bulge. Harshness at the base Stalag degenerated into brutality and outright murder on some of the Kommandos. Beatings of Americans on Kommandos by their German overseers were too numerous to list, but records show that 10 Americans in work detachments were shot dead by their captors."

My grandfather was there from 1942, until the Russians began to advance, and the Germans emptied the camp in the dead of winter, and forced the prisoners to march, most of them to their deaths.

Villard, French Priest, IIB

Front: Villard, French Priest, IIB
Back:
[cross]
A mon
ami
Beverly
bien amicaliment
[unreadable]

L to Right - Beverly M. Pigg, La Verle H. Hopkins, Ivan Leroy Russell, Edgar M. Henry

L to Right - Beverly M. Pigg
(You know where, Darling!)
La Verle H. Hopkins
Bruning Nebraska
or
Pocahontas Iowa
Ivan Leroy Russell
Poole, Kentucky
Edgar M. Henry
Huntington, W. Va

And on an identical print:
Taken on November 10, 1942
in Algeria, North Africa
"Happy", "Kentuck" and "Eddie".

Stalag IIB entertainment

Stalag IIB Gepruft

Meur Bollore Paul, Rue Guersant, Saint Pol de Leon, [?] Morlaix, Finistere, France

Meur Bollore Paul
Rue Guersant
Saint Pol de Leon
[?] Morlaix
Finistere, France

Blanc Louis, 28 Boulevard Gariel, Chutes Lavie, Marseilles, France

[Unreadable] comrade [unreadable] pour notre [unreadable]
on Stalag IIB
Blanc Louis
Stalag IIB 23/10/43

Blanc Louis
28 Boulevard Gariel
Chutes Lavie
Marseilles
France

Mr. GRAVET Vital, Rue St. Rock 132, Mazée (Treignes), Prov. de Namur, Belgique

A mon ami Beverly,
Vital
Mr. GRAVET Vital
Rue St. Rock 132
Mazée (Treignes)
Prov. de Namur
Belgique

Joseph Verteneuil, rue colonel Van Gele. 43 Bruxelles

Neilluies Souvenirs
à mon Ami Beverly
Stalag IIB le 15-22-1943
Joseph Verteneuil
rue colonel Van Gele. 43
Bruxelles

Stalag IIB entertainment (undated, names not listed, but signed)

"To an american brother, with the hope to visit one day his beautiful country, when it will be possible to sing again! «Happy days are here again» Germain sept. H3"

Stalag IIB entertainment (undated, names not listed)

Monday, September 29, 2014

En Français

Photos de l'expérience de prisonnier de guerre de mon grand-père en Afrique du Nord, la Pologne et l'Allemagne, de 1943 à 1945 inscriptions sont affichés en un endroit lisible, avec l'intention que les parents de ses camarades prisonniers de guerre trouveront leurs propres parents. Codétenus indiqués incluent Français et les Belges.