STALAG LUFT 3, Page 1 of 8 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY Prepared by MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, WAR DEPARTMENT 15 July 1944 STALAG LUFT 3 STRENGTH: 3,363 AAF Officers. The squares on the map are 1 x 1 km. Operation Revival: Rescue from Stalag Luft I. Drawing of North I Compound. . Shot down over Duisburg, Germany, 26 March 1943. Some 60 B-17s were shot down, meaning some 600 men were either, POW, KIA, EVD, IINT or some surprisingly were RTD as their planes went down in England. In the Jan. exodus, the South Compound & Center Compound moved to Stalag 7A, Moosburg . click to enlarge and view. This creation of this massive book is a story unto itself, for it is a transcription of over 2,190 biographical entries of POWs compiled by 2 Lt. Ewell Ross . Description. Roy B. MARTIN Jr. were housed in North 1 compound. We have projected the plan of Stalag Luft 3 onto a 1:25.000 topographic map from 1940. Coincidentally, he had carried out his initial training at Somers, in Victoria, at the same time as Al Hake and, like Al, took up residency in 103 Block. I spent the following 16 months as a P.O.W. Roommates - North 2 Compound at Stalag Luft I Clarence Guider (376BG, a prisoner since July 1943) was a savvy Kriegie put in charge of the men from B compound of Stalag Luft 4. Stalag Luft I Online Guestbook Works concerning digging three tunnels: "Tom . Stammlager Luft III, more commonly known as Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during World War II captured allied airmen. T/Sgt. Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2013 Cerro Gordo Documents maintained by Jennifer Gunderson. North 2 Compound. North 3. North 2. Stalag Luft 1 Stalag Luft I was located two miles northwest of the village of Barth, Germany, on the Baltic Sea. STALAG LUFT 3 | Muzeum Obozów Jenieckich Żagań LOCATION: Pin-point: 54º22' North Latitude, 12º42'30" East Longitude. A sub-camp, Stalag IV-D/Z, was opened in May 1942, located in Annaburg about 20 km (12 mi) north of Torgau. POWs colored the map as word of advancing Allied troops leaked into the camp. North 1. The Blenheim and boat crews left Bad Sulza on 29th April 1942 for Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Poland, arriving at the East Compound on 1st May (ICRC 30th April) 1942, initially commanded by a Luftwaffe Colonel, named Stephani but then Colonel Freidrich Wilhelm Von Lindeiner took over. In June 1943 it was renamed . Stalag Luft 3 was adjacent to Stalag VIII C. Stalag Luft I Group Photos. Escape, Murders at Stalag Luft III. Officers and enlisted were housed in separate quarters and parallel leadership was enforced. This proved to be the most Northerly and most Easterly of . The German garrison left the camp several days before the arrival of Soviet forces on 2 May 1945. Chapter 7 - Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug. Every hundred yards, a Guard Tower mounting a machine gun and a pair of spotlights provided constant vigilance and permitted an unobstructed view of all within the confines of the enclosure. North Compound is the site of this great escape plan. South or West. The South Compound (Americans) in September 1943 and finally the West Compound (Americans) in July 1944. German Guards Entering North Compound 1. Instead, we drove back to Stalag Luft 1 and back in time to 1944. In the U.S. Army Air Corp during WWII. This same man has also been identified as Pete Hiltgen. In 1945 as the camp grew, 3 of the German guards barracks located across the street were incorporated in with North I and filled with newly arriving POWs. On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. 1 Compound, separated by German quarters. The event became known as &8220;The Great Escape,&8220; an intricate breakout more than a year in the making, involving as many as 2,000 POWs . By LuftStalg1, . I was a radio operator on a B-17 ( 390th Bomb Group), that was shot down on January 21, 1944. Stalag Luft III (North Compound) Dodge became involved with the organisation of what became known as The Great Escape. OCLC #: 32108789. We have projected the plan of Stalag Luft 3 onto a 1:25.000 topographic map from 1940. Stalag Luft 1 - Bunks removed from sleeping quarters shortly after liberation (Spring 1945) Stalag Luft 1 - South Compound Guard Tower unoccupied 5 days before Stalag Luft One opened as a camp for British officers late in 1942, American Airmen began to arrive early in 1943. All were held as POW's, originally, Dad was in Stalag Luft IV, but was transported by boxcar, along with a lot of other men, to Stalag Luft I. The task of the committee was to prepare and undertake a mass escape of 200 prisoners of war. With the exception of the watercolor The Long March, all pieces were created by F/Lt Keen and fellow POWs in the North Compound, scene of The Great Escape, between . 15º19'30" East longitude. His internment at the camp's south compound coincided with "The Great Escape" of seventy British POWs, which took place on March 25, 1944, at the north compound. April 1942: 700 NCO transferred to Stalag Luft III. One of the reasons I know all of this is simple - my dad was there. Located by the Baltic near the town of Barth in Western Pomerania, Germany, Stalag Luft I was one of a number of Stammlager Luftwaffe, these being permanent camps established and administered by the Luftwaffe, which were used to house Allied air force prisoners of war.Originally built for RAF personnel, by the time the camp was liberated by the Russians in May 1945, the camp contained . POW camp Stalag luft 1 North Compound 1 Address 110 Sandstone Drive City, State, Zip Brandon, Ms. 39047 Comments: To Whom It May Concern, I am intrigued and delighted with the web site you have developed which remembers the Veterans of WWII and who were incarcerated in the German Prison Camps. LOCATION: Until 27 Jan. 1945, Stalag Luft 3 was situated in the Province of Silesia, 90 miles southeast of Berlin, in a stand of fir trees south of Sagan (51º35'N latitude, 15º19'30" E longitude). Some sketches dad brought back of the POW camp he was in during WWII - Stalag Luft 1 in Barth, Germany. Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.. Clarence Guider (376BG, a prisoner since July 1943) was a savvy Kriegie put in charge of the men from B compound of Stalag Luft 4. Lt. Gen. Clark was a lifelong supporter of the Stalag Luft III veterans. The image below shows biographical entries for Lt. Biers and his pilot, Captain Hubert P. Croteau, in Arnold A. Wright's 1993 book Behind The Wire - Stalag Luft III South Compound. Provenance. Group 3. The German garrison left the camp several days before the arrival of Soviet forces on 2 May 1945. The orchestra for North Compound 1 called themselves the "Round the Benders". Alec Arnel was a Spitfire pilot with 451 Squadron RAAF who ended up in Stalag Luft III's North Compound after he was caught unawares by enemy fire near Bologna, Italy on 29 June 1944. STALAG LUFT 3 (Air Force Officers) Prepared by MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE WAR DEPARTMENT 1 November 1945. Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Main Shelves — D805.G3. In 1943 also American POWs came to the camp. (After poem) Originally copied from the wall of a cell in which would be escapees served sentences of solitary confinement for their abortive escape attempts. From March 1944 it was designated as a Heilag (short for Heimkehrerlager ), a repatriation camp for POWs waiting to be either exchanged or returned home on medical grounds. Between May 13 and May 15, 1945 the 8th Air Force conducted Operation Revival. Again recaptured and after spending time in solitary, he was returned to Stalag Luft III in April 1943. Stalag Luft I ePub (30.2 MB) Add to Basket. Lieutenant General Albert 'Bub' Clark died on 8 March 2010 at his home in Colorado Springs. P.O.W.s Page 11 Stalag Luft I - German Officers' Club & Russian barracks, View towards Barth Page 12 The first Allied prisoners entered the camp on 10 July 1940 (French and British POWs). F/Lt. in Stalag Luft VI and IV, then on a forced march. The POWs were evacuated by 8th Air Force B-17s on 12-13 May 1945. F/Lt Raymond Keen with wife Irene. I have a few names from Belaria as well and I also checked the list I have of POWs at Stalag Luft IV. 05/14/12 Name of POW Irvin F. Stehlik POW camp Stalag Luft 1 - North Compound Address 3004 Brentwood Place City, State, Zip Grand Island, NE 68801 Comments: My father, Irvin F. Stehlik, was a co-pilot on a B-17G with the 401st Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn, England. The North Compound fell in with the West Compound at Spremberg and on 2 February entrained for Stalag 13D at Nurnberg, which they reached after a two day trip. His plane was shot down on 15th of Aug 1944 over the Netherlands. Stalag Luft 1 - European Occupation map, hand drawn by POWs and used to lift moral. has an enormous amount of material on the camp, including photos, testimonials, information on POWS and guards, and so much more. The first "Kriegsgefangene" (POWs), arrived on March 21, 1942.The facility would grow to include 10,949 "kriegies", comprising some 2,500 Royal Air force officers, 7,500 United States Army Air officers, and about 900 from other Allied air forces. He was ninety-six years old, and one of the last surviving men who could proudly say, "I played a part in The Great Escape .". Warning Wires Between Compounds. The camp was built in 1939 and designated Stalag I-C. At first it held Polish POWs, then from 1940 also French and Belgians, and from 1941 Russians. The drawings, watercolors and documents are part of the Wartime Log of F/Lt Raymond Keen of the RAF's 78 Squadron and as such come with solid historical provenance. 4 of the crew were killed, 5 taken POW and 1 evaded capture. Compounds. 08/19/18 Name of POW Joseph M. Riney POW camp Stalag Luft 1 - South Compound Address 525 Alvarado St City, State, Zip Redlands, CA 92373 Comments: Looking for roommates info of my Dad during his stay at Stalag Luft 1; bombardier on B-26 from Tunis, North Africa mission Nov 30, 1943 shot down on mission north of Rome; hid in cave in hills; captured while being driven toward Allies, held one day . Stalag Luft III Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft, or Permanent Camp for Airmen #3) was a Luftwaffe (German Air Force) prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force service members. It tells the story of life in the North 1 Compound at Stalag Luft I from April 1944 to liberation in May 1945 from the point of view of 2nd Lt. Delbert "Del" W. Chase, who was a Bombardier on an Allied B-17. It was situated in the German Province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland) about 100 miles south east of Berlin. It was the northernmost POW camp within the confines of the German Reich. Stalag Luft I was located two miles northwest of the village of Barth, Germany, on the Baltic Sea. Almost certainly, George Archer was present at this service as he was one of the Camp Church stewards. 1944. Construction was continuous at the camp and by the end of March 1943 the North Compound for British airmen was opened. There were four for prison compounds: South or West, North 1, North 2 and North 3. LOCATION: Pin point: 51º35'North latitude. Second Lieutenant Richard Michael Clinton Codner MC (29 September 1920 - 25 March 1952) was a British Second World War prisoner of war, best known for being one of the three men to escape successfully from Stalag Luft III in the escape known as The Wooden Horse.. Since our lunch took so long, we decided to skip our original plan to drive through Rostock and on to Wismar in order to retrace Dad's bicycle route out of the camp on his way to the British lines. Stalag Luft I - South Compound Main Gate, Main Gate to Camp, Bunk Beds Page 10 Stalag Luft I - North Compound Gate, First Americans in Camp, Russian General Borisoff & R.A.F. Stalag Luft 1 was opened end 1941 as a British Officer POW camp and was closed in April 1942 with British Officers moved to other POW camps. Stalag Luft I, Barth (June 1940 to May 1945) July 1941: 50 Officers transferred to Oflag X-C. September 1941: NCO transferred to Stalag VIII-B. For the purposes of this game we are only concerned with events at the new North compound. Dad was shot down on Jan 30, 1944 and arrived by train at the camp and was booked in on Feb 14, '44. Stalag Luft III was a German POW camp in the province of Lower Silesia, built to house captured Allied airmen. The following shows some of the POW Camp Movements relating to RAF personnel during WWII. TThe North Compound The real Stalag Luft camp was vast and included several compounds. £4.99. Welcome to POW Camp - Stalag Luft 1 - Barth - Germany We welcome you to Stalag Luft 1 permanent air camp for officers, located in the small seaport town of Barth, Germany - where fleas flourish, winds storm out of the Baltic Sea, fashions are set by the men who wear them, beds are boards, and a sumptuous diet of Jerry rations is offered every day. Nonetheless the North compound was itself huge and housed up to 2,000 prisoners crammed into 15 huts. Art read over one hundred books while in captivity. Such men are independent thinkers, craving open air and wide-open spaces, which meant than an obsession with escape was almost inevitable . Stalag Luft 1 was situated at Barth, Germany, a small town on the Baltic Sea 23 kilometers northwest of Stralsund. WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen or visit South/West Compound - North 1 - North 2 - North 3 Listing of the Prisoners of War at Stalag Luft I This listing contains the names of 7,245 of the 8,939 POWs held at Stalag Luft I when it was liberated in May 1945. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the technical, tactical and planning skills that profession requires. STALAG LUFT 3. 2002 Stalag Luft 1 at Barth-Vogelsang. And it was at Stalag Luft 1 Online that I found accounts of Christmas at the camp, including these personal accounts, among many others:. In Stalag Luft III's East Compound, a church service was held in the theatre by Padre Thompson, a British Methodist padre who had been captured in North Africa. North Compound, Special Order 15 - dated February 13, 1945. The North Compound (British) was opened on March 29, 1943. On October 22, 1943, Turcotte arrived at Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany, where he would spend the next eighteen months. Perk Chumley's memories of Christmas 1944 at Stalag Luft I: American Compound Commander. This compound became North 1. and the opening of North 2 compound on 9 Sept. 1944 and North 3 compound on 9 Dec. 1944 completed the camp as it remained until 15 May 1945. Camp is situated in pine-woods area at Sagan, 168 kilometers Southeast of Berlin. "I was impressed how well the senior RAF officers and USAAF officers were organized. Stalag Luft III: the scene of the real Great Escape. Janine James Email: 11/18/14 Name of POW Lt. James Edward Barbour POW camp Stalag Luft 1 North 2 7rm 3 Address 1525 E Woodland Dr City, State, Zip Dalton Gardens Id 83815 Stalag Luft I was composed of a West Compound and a North No. POW camp Stalag Luft I/North 3 Compound, Barrack 5, Rm12 Address 2650 Cedar Springs Rd., Apt 6641 City, State, Zip Dallas, TX 75201 Comments: My Dad, James W. Nance, was a 2nd Lt. March 1942: 100+ Officers transferred to Stalag Luft III. Stalag Luft III was situated in Sagan, 100 miles south-east of Berlin . Stalag Luft 3 was adjacent to Stalag VIII C. Stalag Luft 1 POW book with Ace pilot Gabreski sig! Almost certainly, George Archer was present at this service as he was one of the Camp Church stewards. August 44 to Nov 44. There was a library at Stalag Luft 1, and Art made full use of it. £4.99. Stalag Luft 1 was liberated on April 30, 1945 by Russian troops. Creator: by Arnold A. Wright. Arthur was held at Stalag Luft 1, North Compound, in Barth until liberated at the end of the war. Tell us where you or your loved one was held, include compound number, barrack or block number and room number, if known and the names of your roommates. T/Sgt. STALAG 17B, Page 1 of 6 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY Prepared by MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, WAR DEPARTMENT 15 July 1944 STALAG 17B STRENGTH: 4,500 AAF NCOs LOCATION: Pin-point: 48º27' North latitude 15º39' East longitude Camp is 100 meters North of Gneixendorf, a village 6 kilometers Northwest of Krems-on-the-Danube, which is 85 Officers ruthlessly shot when recaptured after escaping from the north compound Stalag Luft III on 25th March 1944. On February 9, they joined the cadre of Luft 3 as the struggle began to organize the camp and make it functional. The prison camp was liberated on April 30, 1945 by Russian troops. My father was in Stalag Luft 1 , North 2 Compound, Barrack 7, Room 13 from about March 19, 1945 until freedom. The South Compound (Americans) in September 1943 and finally the West Compound (Americans) in July 1944. There were several different compounds in the same camp. North 1. North Compound, Daily Bulletin - dated July 9, 1944. "Each compound was enclosed by two barbed-wire fences, each about ten feet apart and ten feet tall, with coils of barbed wire between them . Several hundred RAF officers and NCOs are also prisoners in this camp. In Stalag Luft III's East Compound, a church service was held in the theatre by Padre Thompson, a British Methodist padre who had been captured in North Africa. Stalag Luft I Kindle (63.9 MB) Add to Basket. Located by the Baltic near the town of Barth in Western Pomerania, Germany, Stalag Luft I was one of a number of Stammlager Luftwaffe, these being permanent camps established and administered by . Fenton and Fuller departed from Sagan on to 18 th June 1943, arriving on 20 th June 1943 (ICRC records it as 14 th June) at Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug in Wehrkreis I Königsberg, in the Memel area of East Prussia [today Šilutė, Lithuania], a few kilometres from the delta of the Nomunas River. In 1952 during the Malayan Emergency, Codner was killed by pro-independence guerrillas belonging to the Malayan National . He drew the above pictures of the north compound and the theatre. The squares on the map are 1 x 1 km. I have compiled a list of the air crews that flew 14 October 1943 to Schweinfurt. The South compound was always unsatisfactory due to the complete lack of adequate cooking, washing, and toilet facilities. Greening states, "Our barracks were rough, wood fram structures standing on small foundation posts about 8 to 10 inches off the ground. Emmet was incarcerated at Stalag Luft III, taking up residence in Block 108 in the North Compound. By January 1944, the camp had been split into two compounds each with seven . Personal Collection: Arrived at Stalag Luft III's legendary North Compound, 12 April 1943 - The very moment the idea of The Great Escape was hatched. There was a camp orchestra in each compound, and a number of concerts were given. On April 13, 1945, after an approximate three month stay, the Americans were told that they must evacuate Stalag 13D and march to Stalag 7A at Moosburg. NOTE: Stalag Luft 1 was located approximately 105 miles northwest of Berlin and two miles from the village of Barth on a strip of barren land which extended into the Baltic Sea. Reopened in October 1942 with transfer of 200 RAF NCOs from Stalag Luft 3.
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