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Author : Cole T. Kruger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Stalag Nebraska written by Cole T. Kruger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Amateis Marsh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625849559
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Nebraska POW Camps written by Melissa Amateis Marsh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POWs as "evil Nazis." To them, they were ordinary men and very human. And while their stay was not entirely free from conflict, many former captives returned to the Cornhusker State to begin new lives after the cessation of hostilities. Drawing on first-person accounts from soldiers, former POWs and Nebraska residents, as well as archival research, Melissa Marsh delves into the neglected history of Nebraska's POW camps.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803224095
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Great Plains During World War II written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth examination of the effects of World War II on the Great Plains states brings to life the voices and experiences of the residents of the region in recounting the stories of the daily concerns of ordinary people.
Author : Melissa Amateis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439670188
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book World War II Nebraska written by Melissa Amateis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight against the Axis required sacrifice and dedication, and Nebraskans proudly answered the call. Three ordnance plants and two naval munitions depots brought employment and economic opportunities but also housing shortages and racial disturbances. The U.S. Army Air Corps established eleven air bases here, leading to community engagement through USOs and war bond drives. In central Nebraska, the North Platte Canteen welcomed thousands of service members en route to war on troop trains. Henry Doorly's successful scrap campaign became a model for a nationwide operation. Local farmers fed the nation, K-9 war dogs trained at Fort Robinson and native sons Ben Kuroki and Andrew Higgins affected the war in very different ways. Through detailed archival research, author Melissa Amateis tells the remarkable story of the Cornhusker State's homefront.
Author : Richard H. Hoffman Lt. Col. USAF
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462833462
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Stalag 17B written by Richard H. Hoffman Lt. Col. USAF and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-06-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true account of a shoot-down, capture, imprisonment and liberation. The author was in Germany's Stalag 17B, force- marched across Austria, and had a horrifying brush with the holocaust. Patton's troops liberated him and returned him to front line duty. He helped capture many enemy troops before war's end.
Author : Judith M. Gansberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stalag, U.S.A. written by Judith M. Gansberg and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the 370,000 Germans who were prisoners of war in the United States during World War II and the program established by the War Department to educate these prisoners to the benefits of democracy.
Author : Gardner N. Hatch
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563116243
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)
Download or read book American Ex-prisoners of War written by Gardner N. Hatch and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael R. Waters
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585445452
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Stalag written by Michael R. Waters and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The cement slabs and decaying fountains obscured by vegetation at the site of Camp Hearne echo a time forgotten of a bustling city of nearly 5,000 men brought together by world conflict.” The oral histories, archival research, and archaeological data compiled by author Michael Waters and his team of researchers tells the story of 5,000 German soldiers held as prisoners of war in rural Texas during World War II. Camp Hearne, located on the outskirts of Hearne, Texas, was one of the first and largest POW camps in the United States. Between 1943 and 1945 nearly 50,000 German prisoners, mostly from the German Afrika Korps lived and worked at seventy POW camps across Texas. The story of Camp Hearne told here offers the first in-depth look at one of these camps and includes an archaeological study of the treatment and conditions of the German prisoners. Drawing on newspaper accounts and official records from the time, and the recollections of surviving POWs, guards, and local residents, Waters and his team have constructed a detailed description of life in the camp: educational opportunities, recreation, mail call, religious practices, work details, and the food provided. Also revealed are the more serious issues that faced the Americans inside the POW compounds: illegal alcohol distillation, suicides, escapes, hidden secret shortwave radios, and the subversion of postal services. Fascinating artifacts recovered from the site and from the collections of local residents add concrete details. Waters also discusses the national policies and motivations for the treatment of prisoners that prescribed the particulars of camp life. The shadow world of Nazism in the camp is revealed, adding darkness to a story that is otherwise optimistic and in places humorous. The most sinister and brutal example of Nazi activity was the murder of Corporal Hugo Krauss, a German-born New York–raised volunteer in the German army. Captured in North Africa after service in Russia, Krause was attacked seven months later by six to ten fellow prisoners and beaten with clubs, nail–studded boards and a lead pipe. The dramatic recounting of the murder and the ensuing investigation illustrate much about the underlying political tensions of camp existence. This book makes a unique and notable contribution to Texas history. The narrative is enriched by numerous photographs and drawings. It will engage those interested in Texas history and World War II and hold particular interest for avocational and professional historical archaeologists.
Author : Arthur A. Durand
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stalag Luft III written by Arthur A. Durand and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1988 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based largely on a coded history secretly kept by the prisoners of Stalag Luft III, this in-depth examination shows the main priority of the POWs was the planning and execution of escapes which would aid the war effort by undermining German military resources. 22 black-and-white photographs.
Author : Richard H. Hoffman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780738814025
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Stalag 17B written by Richard H. Hoffman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1988 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Justman of the Sarpy County Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467146560
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Sarpy County: A History written by Ben Justman of the Sarpy County Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smallest of Nebraska's ninety-three counties, Sarpy County's history looms large. The area was home to Native Americans--including the Otoe, Omaha and Pawnee tribes. Hundreds of thousands of settlers moved through the area during westward migration, and they had to cross rivers on ferries like the one operated by the county's namesake, Peter Sarpy. The addition of Offutt Air Force Base and the Martin Bomber Plant made the county an important hub during World War II and beyond. Author, historian and museum director Ben Justman offers the rich history of Sarpy County.
Author : Addison Erwin Sheldon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Nebraska History written by Addison Erwin Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward A. Handy
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Flame Keepers written by Edward A. Handy and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned Handy recounts the experiences he had while being held as an American prisoner of war in Germany's notorious prison camp, Stalag 17.
Author : James L. Noles
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731654X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Mighty by Sacrifice written by James L. Noles and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispatched on what was to be an easy assignment of attacking the Privoser Oil Refinery and associated railroad yards at Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, the 20th Squadron of the 2nd Bombardment Group saw the bloodiest day in their history. Not a single one of the 20th Squadron's B-17 bombers returned from the mission. In this book, the 90 airmen on that mission provide a remarkable personal window into the Allies' Combined Bomber Offensive at its height during World War II. Their stories encapsulate how the U.S. Army Air Force built, trained, and employed one of the mightiest war machines ever seen. These stories also illustrate, however, the terrible cost in lives demanded by that same machine.
Author : Fred H. Allison
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574419188
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book My Darling Boys written by Fred H. Allison and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Darling Boys is the story of a New Mexico farm family whose three sons were sent to fight in World War II. All flew combat aircraft in the Army Air Forces. In 1973 one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a B-24 top turret gunner and flight engineer, wrote a memoir of his World War II experiences. On a mission to Regensburg, Germany, his bomber, ravaged by German fighters, was shot down. He was captured and spent fifteen months in German stalag prisons. His memoir, the core of this unique book, details his training, combat, and prisoner-of-war experience in a truthful, introspective, and compelling manner. Fred H. Allison, the author and Oscar’s nephew, gained access to family letters that supplement Oscar’s story and bring to light the experiences of Oscar’s brothers. Harold Allison, the author’s father—was sidelined from combat as a bomber copilot due to a health condition. The letters also tell of the brother who did not come home, Wiley Grizzle Jr., a P-51 fighter pilot. Wiley’s last mission brought his squadron of Mustangs into a pitched battle with German fighters bound for the front to attack American troops. The letters also introduce the boys’ family, who fought the battle of the home front on their farm in New Mexico. Allison reveals the burden home folks bore for their boys in combat and then the emotional trauma from the dreaded War Department letters announcing “missing in action” or “killed in action.” Allison conducted extensive research in the official records and in secondary sources to give context to the memoir and letters. My Darling Boys brings a new and important aspect to personal accounts of World War II combat, giving the reader a unique blend of first-person military action tied to the home front family.
Author : Donald Bevan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822210702
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Stalag 17 written by Donald Bevan and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: This turbulent and gutsy play tells the story of a group of American prisoners who embarrass and irritate their captors as they try to escape from a German prison camp. The plot revolves around the escape of an American who will face ser
Author : Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Strafbattalion written by Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr. and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Army’s Strafbattalions were infantry units made up largely of convicts, felons, malingerers, thugs and the criminally insanePreviously unpublished story of the unitsThe accounts of the most famous Strafbattalion units in combatA story of little-known Nazi units: Hitler’s ‘Dirty Dozens’ When war broke out in 1939, Hitler created Strafbattalion (Penal Battalion) units to deal with incarcerated members of the Wehrmacht as well as ‘subversives’. His order stated that any first-time convicted soldier could return to his unit after he had served a portion of his sentence in ‘…a special probation corps before the enemy’. Beginning in April 1941, convicted soldiers, even those sentenced to death, who had shown exceptional bravery or meritorious service could rejoin their original units; however, those in probation units were expected to undertake dangerous operations at the front. Refusal entailed enforcement of the original sentence. The soldiers who ‘won back an honourable place in the national community’ had done everything that was asked of them from suicidal advance teams, shock troops, and laying mines under fire. By 1945, over 50,000 Wehrmacht troops had served in punishment regiments. Strafbatallion: Hitler’s Penal Battalions examines the penal units, their combat history and order of battle.
