[cartoonistx]

My mother’s family were Italian immigrants. There were internment facilities in the Los Angeles area where POWs were brought from Europe.
My great-uncle Andy used to go entertain them with Italian songs on Saturday nights!

[super7man]

The father of a friend of mine was in Italian Air Force during WWII. He was ordered to do a reconnaissance flight over the American lines. The plane they assigned him was a WWI bi-plane. He said it had fabrique rips in the fuselage and wings. He said are you crazy? They said no. He had to go. He flew over the American lines landed in a field and surrendered.

They sent him to an Arizona POW camp. He said that about once a week all the prisoners would escape and go to Mexico and get drunk. The Americans would come and gather them up in the morning and take them back to camp.

He stayed in America after the war.

[Capt. Tom]

There were internment facilities in the Los Angeles area where POWs were brought from Europe.

I was born and raised in the Dorchester section of Boston,and we had Camp McKay that held 1800 Italian Prisoners of War. - Tom