Posted on Sep 15, 2023
In Oklahoma I Realized We Germans and Americans were Not So Different After All
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awesome read/share: PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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My Dad was one of the guards in N.Y. He escorted the POWs to Coral City in south Florida. Most of the POWs stayed in Coral City and their decedents live there today.
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SFC Robert Devincenzo Amazing. Sounds like the the POWs were given a choice to stay or return . .
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SFC Robert Devincenzo
SGT Mary G. - My understanding is that after the war they were released to find their own way home.
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Canada took in a lot of prisoners of war from Germany. They also interned Japanese Canadians after the Niihau incident. So much is similar between Canada and the us. I went to is active duty base in 2018 and 2019. Americans often have an exercise involving the Canadians deploying to latvia. The exercise is called Maple resolve. Some years is held at Canadian Forces base Wainwright. German prisoners of War also were allowed to work in the fields and do odd jobs to kill time. They knew they were hundreds of miles from the coast and they knew that they were thousands of miles from Germany.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
Thirty-four former German prisoners of war return to the scene of their wartime imprisonment in Wainwright, Alberta.
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