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Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

It was surprising to Baynham when his parachute opened. He could see a power line that he was being blown toward. He...

When Robert Whitcomb neared the ground [Annotator's Note: after bailing out of his damaged aircraft over Gymnich,...

Leonard Spivey was told that the war was over for him and that he would not be fighting again. Spivey gave them name,...

Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII, in Moosburg, Germany] was a consolidation of prisoners from all over. When...

James Read Kirk got out of the war as a staff sergeant in September 1945. He immediately went to college. He used the...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany after he bailed out of his plane [...

Captured after bailing out of his flak damaged B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber], Eben...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named “...

Robert Bueker [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] was treated quite well by...

Eben Smith was relocated to Camp Lucky Strike in France [Annotator's Note: after being liberated from the Stalag Luft I...

During the day on 30 April 1945, they [Annotator's Note: John Sacks and his fellow prisoners in Stalag Luft I] were...

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