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  Cyndi's List - Canada - Military
A mailing list to help those who are researching the genealogy and service records of family members who served in the armed services during World War II (1939-1945) and the history of the units and organizations in which they served.
List of men who enlisted with the 40th Battery of the Canadian Forces Artillery during World War One when it was organized in Hamilton, Ontario in 1915.
A list of men that were transfered from the recruiting depot in Hamilton, Ontario during World War One to the 47th Battery, CFA.
www.cyndislist.com /milcan.htm   (2941 words)

  
  List of POW camps in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The camps were identified by letters at first, then by numbers.
In addition to the main camps there were branch camps and labor camps.
Conditions in the Canadian camps tended to be better than average, and many times better than the conditions of the barracks that Canadian troops were kept in.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_POW_camps_in_Canada   (177 words)

  
 List of POW camps in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is a list of PoW camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict.
These are the camps that housed captured members of the enemy armed forces, crews of ships of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft.
Oflag or Offizier-Lager (officer camp) – These were POW camps for officers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_POW_camps_in_Germany   (675 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Prisoner-of-war camp
The earliest known purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was built at Norman Cross, England in 1797 to house the increasing number of prisoners from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
In the winter 1920/1921 PoWs had a death rate of about 25% which was attributed to malnutrition, poor sanitary conditions, lack of fuel and medicines and physical maltreatment by the polish supervisors.
Lieutenant colonel I. Matuszewski, the head of the II department of the Polish Joint Staff, informed the military minister of Poland in the letter on February 1, 1922, that 22 thousand of PoWs were lost in the camp of Tuchol in all time of its existence.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Prisoner-of-war_camp   (1627 words)

  
 Prisoner-of-war camp - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Enlisted ranks were required to perform whatever labor they were asked and able to do, so long as it was not dangerous and did not support the captor's war effort.
At least 545 Japanese POWs attempted to escape from a camp near Cowra, Australia.
List of POW camps in Germany and German occupied countries (Stalags), also see [21]
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Prisoner-of-war_camp   (1297 words)

  
 Prisoners of War
The Marchent Camp, Devizes, Wiltshire and Sudbury, Derbyshire and Shrewsbury (GPC), Salop
Camp 168, Glen Mill Camp which was a disused cotton mill in Wellyhole Road in Oldham, Lancashire and possessed a large number of Russian volunteers who had been captured fighting for the Germans in France.
It was at this camp also that a number of Fallschirmjäger were also sent who, coming straight from the battlefields in France and with their strong sense of discipline intact, were enraged at the behaviour of the ill-disciplined Russians.
www.fortunecity.com /campus/dixie/921/PoWs/pows.htm   (4852 words)

  
 THE LOCATION OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached.
Camp was accidentally discovered by a man and his son who were rabbit hunting; they were discovered and apprehended.
CANADA Our Canadian friends tell us that virtually all Canadian military bases, especially those north of the 50th Parallel, are all set up with concentration camps.
www.geocities.com /northstarzone/CAMPS.html   (5236 words)

  
 List of people associated with World War II - enyclopaedia article about List of people associated with World War II
List of people associated with World War II Summary: See: World War II 1 Albania 2 Australia 3 Austria 4 Belgium 5 Brazil 6 Bulgaria 7 Burma 8 Canada 9 China 10 Czechoslovakia 11 Denmark 12 Egypt...
Henri Giraud, general who escaped a German POW camp and became the leader of liberated North Africa until displaced by De Gaulle.
Juana Bormann (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps.
www.pro-researcher.co.uk /encyclopaedia/english/list_of_people_associated_with_world_war_ii   (2056 words)

  
 Displaced Persons' (DP) Camps Book List
In most cases the family names are listed alphabetically by oblast, then by raion, then by village.
This is an insider's view of the tyranny and corruption in the largest INS detention camp in the United States.
In graph form, the report provides primary data about many features of DP camp management, including DP population figures, relief team numbers, camp locations, assembly center numbers, camp names and capacities, and the precise dates that information was recorded in August 1946.
www.dpcamps.org /books.html   (2783 words)

  
 German POWs in Allied Hands in World War II
Shipped to separate camps in Siberia and elsewhere in the western Soviet Union, the German POWs were subjected to aggressive reeducation in communist ideology, as well as frequent beatings, torture, and execution.
Camps for German POWs were set up all over England and the United States.
German POWs often remained defiant Nazis in captivity, but others were grateful for a hot meal and a warm place to sleep after the horrors of modern warfare.
www.worldwar2database.com /html/germanpow.htm   (466 words)

  
 WWII Stalag Luft & POW Camps
The rule in most of the camps was that both "individual" (for a named person, sent and paid for by relatives and containing a mixture of goods) and "bulk" parcels (for general distribution, sent and paid for by the International Red Cross, and containing a supply of a single item) were pooled.
In many other camps, captured officers were paid an equivalent of their pay in "lagergeld" or internal camp currency, and could buy items such as musical instruments and what few everyday goods which were available.
As the numbers of airmen increased, this became essential as it was not unknown for the Germans to introduce infiltrators in an attempt to spy on camp operations and escape attempts.
www.b24.net /pow/greatescape.htm   (8576 words)

  
 POW/MIA (POW)
Still listed as MIA in January 1, 1954 were 2,953, and the figure for died, or presumed dead, was 5,140.
Its unidentified author added that he believed "Manchurian camps house a great many U.S. POWs, and Manchuria is a staging area or collecting point for U.S. POWs." The report is one in a series of eight written at regular intervals during the war by Army intelligence officers attempting to track POW movements.
The 72-year-old POW told stories of his "life of hell" in North Korea, saying he was subjected to a lifetime of forced labor in the state coal mines.
www.kalaniosullivan.com /KunsanAB/3rdBW/POWMIA2.html   (10948 words)

  
 Photographs and Memorabilia
The surviving POWs from the Oryoku Maru were held for six days on a single tennis court at the former Olongapo Naval Base and then taken by truck to San Fernando, Pampanga.
The variance is possibly due to the number of POWs that died very soon after their arrival at Moji.
The British and Dutch POWs along with other POWs were then placed on the Dainichi Maru and the Singapore Maru for the voyage to Takao, Formosa and on to Moji, Japan.
www.west-point.org /family/japanese-pow/photos.htm   (4276 words)

  
 WWII Stalag Luft POW Camps
Some 250 POWs were scheduled to go, but most of them were caught in the immediate area, some still in the tunnel; only 3 made it all the way home.
To reflect a bit on the POW experience and life in a pow camp, let me say it is a very dehumanizing thing.
In the POW experience, as you lose control of your life, a feeling of utter helplessness sets in; then you suddenly become very bitter and a driving desire to survive engulfs you.
www.b24.net /pow/luft3.htm   (7903 words)

  
 Fukuoka POW Camp #1 - Forward & Updates
I hope that I can in some small way contribute to a better understanding of what went on at a Japanese prisoner of war camp, namely Fukuoka POW Camp #1, and help others find out what happened to their husbands, their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers who were at one time interned here.
Visit Michael Palmer's website on his grandfather, George Palmer, who served with the Royal Rifles of Canada and was a POW at Kawasaki/Soeda #5, one of the many coal mining camps in north central Kyushu.
POW Supply Missions to Japan -- 20th Air Force report on relief supply missions to POW camps at the end of WWII.
home.comcast.net /~winjerd/POWCamp1.htm   (4751 words)

  
 State-By-State Index Of Potential US Concentration Camps
The following list is not complete, in spite of the extensive research put into it, and the attempts to verify the information that was available.
Some sites are listed by virtue of their status as a WWII internment camp or present-day penal facility and do not necessarily resemble a "concentration camp" to the casual observer.
A local police officer who was hunting and camping close to the base in the game preserve was accosted, roughed up, and warned by the English-speaking unit commander to stay away from the area.
www.rense.com /general17/statebystate.htm   (5306 words)

  
 A-Z Index of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
Click on a letter of the alphabet to display a list of topic keywords beginning with the letter you have selected.
AIR RESCUE - List of rescue aircraft and of rescued aircrew rescue aircraft list and of rescued FAA aircrew
Lists of companies which provide oppurtunities to ride, fly or have tution to "drive" airworthy vintage and historic aircraft in the
www.fleetairarmarchive.net /A-ZIndex.html   (4227 words)

  
 Jewish POW's at Colditz
Allied Officers who had made repeated attempts to escape from other POW camps were housed here by the Germans in the expectation that they would never get out of such an imposing fortress.
The POW population was typically a shifting one but of the thousand or so who were there, it is estimated about 40 were Jewish and it is known that there were about 60 French Jewish political internees as well.
Born son of Israel and Edith in West Ham, London on 1/1/18, he was captured in Crete by the Germans on 29/5/41 but escaped and spent 3 months in the mountains with the Partisans [12].
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/sugar6.html   (1525 words)

  
 Matchcovers: Master List of Lists
Most of these lists list covers, but some list locations (especially anything termed “Index”), items, etc; first ref given is
CCC CAMPS: John Williams, current; IMC Bul #111+, 1985+
T and T LISTS: Mike Prero (2003); Tom Torrent and Frank Tripodi (1940s).
matchpro.org /MasterListofLists.html   (625 words)

  
 Vietnam Veterans of Florida POW/MIA
Homepage of Steve E. Kiba, POW in Red China.
Let us not ever let our comrades in POW camps stand alone.....................Here is a mixed edited segment of some of the lyrics....
Please excuse any missing sites or sites that might no longer be active We will try to keep sites added and updated on a bi-weekly basis.
www.vvof.org /vvofpow.htm   (660 words)

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