Source: Lorraine McLoughlin, whose mother was Jack Davies daughter-in-law owns a St. Johns Ambulance First Aid Book that belonged to Jack Davies; information about Jack is recorded on the inside covers of the book. Camp 59 internmentMarch 12, 1942June 8, 1943, H. J. Carey Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 State of ResidenceNew York Serial Number37073082 W. 6 London British Army, Escaped though the hole in the wall of Camp 59 on September 14, 1943, Made his way, with two other British servicemen, to Switzerland, Patrick Cahill Jack Kirkpatricks name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Private On 24 March 1944, 76 Allied prisoners escaped through a 110 m (approximately 360 feet) long tunnel. U.S. Army, Infantry State of Residenceunlisted [Wisconsin] U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers Private Private I am grateful for the wealth of information they have sent me to share on this site. All rights reserved. New 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 CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13), Escaped from Camp 59 in September 1943; Owen Frye and William Helmley were protected by the Marcozzi family near the town of Force in the province of Ascoli Piceno. State of ResidenceNew York U.S. Army, Infantry Serial Number38027034 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), William B. Casey, Jr. 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). Top photo: Armed guards in watchtowers and double rows of barbed-wire fencing kept POWs from escaping Germanys notorious Stalag 17-B. State of Residenceunlisted Technician, Grade 5 Private Fahl Earl Cornell. Vandergraft, Penna. U.S. Army, Infantry State of ResidencePennsylvania 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 Tasiopulos Private These are the memories and observations of Howard Thornley, who was a prisoner of war in Europe during World War II. Arrived in Camp 59 on March 1, 1943 U.S. Army, InfantryParachute Infantry This address for Leslie Beer is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: Leslie J. Russia had not signed the 1929 Geneva Convention agreement, which, on paper, guaranteed humane treatment for prisoners of war. Escaped with an American paratrooper and several British soldiers through a tunnel from Camp 59 on September 8, 1943 when word of Italian armistice reached the camp, and before the general escape from camp on September 14. U.S. National Archives on-line POW database lists only two POWs with this last name: Fay M. Straight and William J. Sergeant Riley Rudd died in a hospital in Ascoli Piceno on July 20, 1942 of appendicitis. Anthony Fiore Service Number967031 Serial Number6701591 Corporal Brechin, Angus 1724 South 88th Street Serial Number39186606 Captured June 15, 1941Fort Capuzzo, Libya Serial Number6953355 Serial Number 7082151 Serial Number16020988 Arthur Austin died of pneumonia in the Camp 59 infirmary on March 5, 1943. Giuseppe Millozzi in Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano notes that both Aiden Duff and J. H. D. Millar were Scottish. 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 List Organized By: Random. Address from Armie Hills address book: This address for William Rawlinson is from Robert Dickinsons prison camp journal, Servigliano Calling: William Rawlinson Gunner (Research courtesy of Brian Sims), John Jack Albert Allen Captured in Algeria, Willman King was interned in Italian and German camps, including Camp 59. 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), Address: State of Residenceunlisted Serial Number36104952 Blain Prewitts name and address (above) were written on a card in Luther Shields deck of playing cards. Lawrence F. Hunt Serial Number6871722 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), Clovis G. Amos 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 George Jux 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 F. Quigley, Jr. State of ResidenceIowa As Handy later wrote, We know now what none of us could have imagined then: that those who shuttled us in boxcars to Stalag 17 routed millions of others to the death camps. Doubtless other American prisoners of Stalag 17-B also discovered themselves counting their blessings as they pondered their plight in one of the Nazis harshest prisons. Serial Number35040104 However, there are several POWs with the name Charles Martin listed as having been detained by Germany, some of them without state are residence or camp listings. State of ResidenceIndiana Warren, Ohio. [Polish POWs released from Stalag XXI B] (ID: 23485) . U.S. Army, InfantryRifle 1207 Ninth St. G. H. Bird 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. U.S. Army, Infantry Massachusetts. 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), Martin E. Wood, Jr. Serial Number19012836 Serial Number33146780 Private U.S. Army, InfantryRifle State of ResidenceMaryland State of Residenceunlisted State of ResidenceNorth Carolina 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). First Infantry Division (the Big Red One) 6956161is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Serial Number32207520 Source: Herbert Parkes granddaughter Michelle Stephenson, John Pawlawski State of ResidenceWisconsin U.S. Army, Field ArtilleryArmored 105 MM Howitzer Omaha, Nebraska, Robert R. Krager, an American serviceman who was interned in Camp 59, was later a prisoner in Germany. 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), Joseph E. Pojawis Service Number883615 See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. State of ResidenceWest Virginia Waverly Park R.F.D. Sergeant Source: Patrick Cahills grandson Dean Cahill, Patrick Cahill [England, United Kingdom], James Bough Stalags were operated in both World War I and World War II and were intended to be used for non-commissioned personnel (enlisted ranks in the US Army and other ranks in British Commonwealth forces). Captured December 28, 1941Agedabia, Libya Helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by Source: Swiss Red Cross report on Camp 59 (December 16, 1942), as referenced by Giuseppe Millozzi in Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano, William Kulynych Address from Armie Hills address book: State of ResidenceTexas [England, United Kingdom], Daniel M. Jorgensen Officers were held in separate camps called Oflag. Serial Number36501055 Birmingham [West Midlands] U.S. Army, InfantryParachute Infantry Ronald James Jim McMahon Camp 59 internmentMarch 3May 29, 1943, H. J. Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 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). They were repatriated in June 1944 by Allied forces. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle U.S. Army, Field Artillery Escaped from Camp 59 on September 14, 1943 They reached the Allied forces on June 14, 1944. U.S. Army, Infantry 2578794 Sergeant 459 South Rowan Avenue State of ResidenceIndiana Private First Class 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), Charles F. Poleri U.S. Army, InfantryArmored Infantry Reached Allied lines, John J. Withers See post Dual Purpose Deck of Cards, January 5, 2009. U.S. Army, InfantryRifle Serial Number12016884 The terrible truths tucked away with Stalag 17-B in the Austrian wilderness began to come to light in the spring of 1945, as Russian armies from the east and American armies from the west were crushing the remnants of the Nazi war machine between them. 20714955is recorded in Armie Hills prison camp notebook as being one of 36 men living in Hut 4Section 11 of Camp 59. Sergeant Kenneth E. GaddySerial No. Freeborn laying in a field. 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), Camp leader at Camp 59 from February 1942 to September 1942, Donald A. Penton Private First Class Willis LargentSerial No. Private First Class Fredric G. Busky [Frederick G. Buske]Serial No. Gilmore City, Io. Dale E. Bechtel State of ResidencePennsylvania Add a Name to this List 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 Highgate, London S.E. 276 Wragby Road Stalag 20B (XX-B, according to the German designation system) was a WW2 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs located in the outskirts of Marienburg (now called Malbork), which is situated about 25 miles southeast of Danzig (now called Gdansk) in northern Poland. 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