Author: United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Annals of Cleveland
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama
Author: Alabama. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
German Prisoners of War at Camp Cooke, California
Author: Jeffrey E. GeigerPublisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1620067501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In 1943, the first great wave of Hitler’s soldier’s came to America, not as goose-stepping conquering heroes, but as prisoners of war. By the time World War II ended in 1945, more than six hundred German POW camps had sprung up across America holding a total of 371,683 POWs. One of these camps was established at the U.S. Army’s training installation Camp Cooke on June 16, 1944. The POW base camp at Cooke operated sixteen branch camps in six of California’s fifty-eight counties and is today the site of Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. Compared to other prisoner of war camps in California, Camp Cooke generally held the largest number of German POWs and operated the most branch camps in the state. A large number of the prisoners were from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps, as well as from other military formations. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, the prisoners received comfortable quarters and excellent care. They filled critical wartime labor shortages inside the main Army post at Cooke and in the outlying civilian communities, performing agricultural work for which they were paid. On weekends and evenings, they enjoyed many recreational entertainment and educational opportunities available to them in the camp. For many POWs, the American experience helped reshape their worldview and gave them a profound appreciation of American democracy. This book follows the military experiences of fourteen German soldiers who were captured during the campaigns in North Africa and Europe and then sat out the remainder of the war as POWs in California. It is a firsthand account of life as a POW at Camp Cooke and the lasting impression it had on the prisoners.
Alphabetical General Index to Public Library Sets of 85,271 Names of Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Individual Records
Author: Michigan. Adjutant-General's DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30 ...
Author: VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 2586
Book Description
Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure ...
Author: Records and Sketches of Military Organizations
Author: Wisconsin. Commission on Civil War RecordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
History of Michigan Camps 1928
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military training camps
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Author: