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 Service Number3196639 Fields Private U.S. Army, InfantryRifle According to the Geneva Convention, as non-commissioned officers, the Americans were not required to work. Serial Number18117755 U.S. Army, Coast Artillery Corps The Nazis ignored sickness and starvation in the Russians ranks, and men died in droves. U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Force The 1945 map of Stalag 17B indicating today's location of the few remaining remnants of Stalag 17-B The map points to the grove of trees where the only relics of the camp remain. British Private Attached, 3rd Light Field Ambulance 724 MacKinley 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), Additional source: Letters written by Marshall Wells provided by POW Raymond Kestners granddaughter Jessica McMahon (posted on this site), Robert B. Wessels State of Residenceunlisted Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Anthony is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Australian Army Corps2nd/32nd Battalion. State of ResidenceIndiana Pte. U.S. Army, Field Artillery State of ResidenceIllinois Records from Stalag 17B Prisoner of War Camp other sources. Walter P. Frick See post Clifford Houbens Address List, January 5, 2013. 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), J. F. Meyler Private U.S. Army, Medical DepartmentArmored Force 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), Laverne A. Sparks Service Number860452 Signalman Private Seattle 8, Wash. [Washington]. 6th Armored Infantry, First Armored Division 16000460is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Haverstraw, N.Y. [New York]. Albert I. Rosenblum Bennett, Vernon F, Staff Sergeant, Right Waist Gunner, Prisoner Of War Russi, William A, Corporal, Left Waist Gunner, Prisoner Of War Halbert, Truair E, Staff Sergeant, Tail Gunner, Killed In Action . U.S. Army, Infantry Captain Camp 59 internmentJanuary 9April 22, 1942, A. J. Budd See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. As General George S. Pattons Third Army smashed its way across Germany toward Austria, it began liberating thousands of German captivesHitlers starving, mostly Jewish political prisoners and captured Allied soldiers and airmen. State of Residenceunlisted 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 Technician, Grade 4 Northwich, Cheshire Serial Number37129673 Nathan A. McClendon 18th Regiment, 4th Platoon, 1st Battalion, C Company, Captured in at the battle for Long Stop Hill in Tunisia on Christmas Eve 1942, Held for 10 days in Camp 98 on Sicily before being transferred to Camp 59. Serial Number 31140926 [Mississippi], Captured near Kasserine Pass in North Africa, Interned in Camp 98 on Sicily for 28 days before being transferred to Camp 59, Escaped from Camp 59 in September 1943 with Willis Largent; 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), Sources: an interview with John O. Everett; John O. Everetts son John O. Everett, Jr. and daughter Sandra Everett Barnett, Eugene C. Excell Captured near Ragusa, Sicily, on or about February 27, 1942 Address from Armie Hills address book: 93rd Battalion, Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery 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 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), Ralph Hoag Sergeant 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 Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich 48-11). Food remained scarce. State of ResidenceTennessee Service Number1433896 State of ResidenceIdaho George W. Mickus name and address (above) as recorded in Willman Kings address list. Freeborn's next two years would be spent at the infamous Stalag VII B Braunau Gneikendorf, Germany, near Krems, Austria. U.S. ArmyCompany D, 18th Infantry 38064103recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Royal Corps of Signals After their time in Camp 59, the men were sent to separate camps and, after escape from their respective camps, both made their way north to freedom in Switzerland. Theodore Drazkowski Private Service Number7015022 Helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by 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), Wesley A. Goettel U.S. Army, Field ArtilleryTank Destroyer For the quickly thinning American ranks, the average daily menuwhich German officials, not the prisoners, chose to reduce when Red Cross parcels were distributedconsisted of warm water in the morning (which many men used to make coffee), a few crusts of dark bread of dubious preparation in the afternoon, and a dinner of pitifully thin soup of perhaps potato or rutabaga, but more often fish heads and other assorted discards. 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), George H. Tucker See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. State of ResidencePennsylvania See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Serial Number12007149 Tatsfield,Westerham Highgate, London S.E. Alisal Ranch Sheffield 2 Dewitt T. Stansell, Jr. Sergeant Royal Army Medical Corps, Escaped from Camp 59 with Corporal Howard F. Jones. 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), Leslie J. Crotty Serial Number33136497 Serial Number15059956 North Tazewell, Virginia, Milton E. Cohen Private Source: Patrick Cahills grandson Dean Cahill, Patrick Cahill I did not find a Gene Schull or Eugene Schull in the U.S. Archives WW II POW or enlistment databases. 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), Ebb W. McGuire Serial Number37158596 Private Malone, N.Y. [New York]. State of ResidenceSouth Carolina Serial Number39163898 13023021is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Shot down over Naples 11 Dec 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 Repatriatedno camp listed). Bronx Staff Sergeant U.S. Army, Infantry State of ResidenceWest Virginia State of Residence State of ResidenceTexas Service NumberT/164744 John A. Allen Private State of Residenceunlisted 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 Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15), Michael R. Kreisch My sources for information about British and other non-American Allied prisoners have been less official. U.S. Army, Field Artillery155 MM Howitzer Truck Drawn Company E, 47th Infantry Regiment State of Residenceunlisted Private Bombardier He was decorated for this decision at the end of the war. Private Captured December 28, 1941Agedabia, Libya 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), Ralph N. Astin U.S. Army, Infantry U.S. Army, InfantryRifle The non-commissioned officers were then packed like cattle into filthy boxcars and shipped by rail to their new homes and lives as prisoners of war. Sergeant Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. Australian Army Corps2nd/28th Batallion, Leonard Caruso Captured December 4, 1942Tunis, Tunesia Serial Number36072813 Kings Royal Rifle Corps State of ResidenceNew Jersey [Indiana]. 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), Roy E. Hatfield Private Sergeant Sergeant Corporal 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), James A. Corcoran Trooper U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Infantry Private See post Clifford Houbens Address List, January 5, 2013. Benjamin F. Farley 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), Source: Swiss Red Cross report on Camp 59 from December 16, 1942, as referenced by Giuseppe Millozzi in Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano. Serial Number39227259 In fact the number of the latter increased from 445 in March 43 to 913 two months later, that is in June when the Red Cross delegates inspected the camp for the last time. This address for Victor Day is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Victor A. State of ResidencePennsylvania 102nd Regiment, Royal Artillery [Pennsylvania], R. H. Collins Private First Class Allen A. CoombsSerial No. 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), Rufus Transeau Reome Brayno, Army Infantry, of New York was returned to military control, liberated or repatriated from a POW camp, but no camp name is indicated. #1 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), Charlie W. Smith State of ResidenceMaryland Les Worthington Private British Army, Interned at Camp 59 for at least two years, Arrived in Adelboden, Switzerland during the winter of 1943-44 and departed in October 1944, Convalesced in Leysin, Switzerland in 1944-45 before returning to England, Source: Robert Smiths niece Carole Procter; a news article from The Herald (A paper serving the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England) January 25, 1944, James L. Snodgrass Serial Number 13025138 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), Raymond J. Skinner Newburgh, N.Y. [New York]. Source: In Clifford Houbens address list, Keith is noted as having been interned in Camp 59. Private First Class Private State of ResidenceNew York Address from Armie Hills address book: Charlie Perkins name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Tylers Green Arthur E. Shupe Robert R. Downings name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Serial Number37042565 Private Technician, Grade 5 Private Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 Reached Allied lines, G. W. Jaques 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 J. Noah 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). 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