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CARRIER PLANES BOMB 3 PORTS ON CHINA COAST; INDO-CHINA BAG IS 41 SHIPS SUNK, 28 DAMAGED (1/16/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 1/16/45 | Robert Trumbull, Lindesay Parrott, Clifton Daniel, A.C. Sedgwick, Raymond Daniell, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 01/16/2015 4:21:19 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Bulge? What Bulge?


21 posted on 01/16/2015 12:49:02 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: colorado tanker

My dad was an engineer who helped design industrial processes. He worked with a plant engineer he knew as “Gus,” a former German POW who spent the war on a farm in Louisiana. Same story; Gus found a way to get back to the USA as a citizen. He said that all the German POWs he was with lived in a barracks with minimal supervision, went to the farms during the day, came back at night, and got Sunday passes to go into town.

I don’t think that would have happened had Gus been a POW in the east. He was lucky.


22 posted on 01/16/2015 2:05:56 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: henkster
got Sunday passes to go into town

Sounds like they were unescorted. I'm having difficulty thinking through why and how the powers-that-be allowed that.

23 posted on 01/16/2015 2:52:42 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: EternalVigilance
Sorry to jump ahead. But I was asked.

:-)

Spoiler alert!

24 posted on 01/16/2015 3:08:26 PM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: henkster

There was a large farm near our family’s farm in Sac County Iowa that used Italian POWs for labor. My Dad, who was nine when we entered the war, told me about seeing them walk to town to go to the movies. No guards or anything. They were pretty much treated the same way as the hired hands.


25 posted on 01/16/2015 3:26:14 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: henkster
He said that all the German POWs he was with lived in a barracks with minimal supervision, went to the farms during the day, came back at night, and got Sunday passes to go into town.

It isn't like they were going to go anywhere.

Here is some Tennessee home front lore:

Three German submariners who escaped from Crossville came upon a mountain cabin. Out came "granny," who told them to "git." When they did not leave, she shot one of them dead. When a local deputy arrived and told her of the circumstances, the woman sobbed, claiming she would never have fired had she known they were Germans. "I thought they wuz Yankees," she said.
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1076
26 posted on 01/16/2015 4:04:43 PM PST by fso301
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I notice that the countries that made up the western front in January 1945 - France, Germany, Belgium - in January 2015 comprise the western front in the war with radical Islam.


27 posted on 01/16/2015 4:30:05 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: EternalVigilance

The rumors regarding Hitler had a long tail. There was an article in the Readers Digest about Hitler living in South America in 1962.


28 posted on 01/16/2015 5:45:19 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: fso301

That’s hilarious.


29 posted on 01/16/2015 6:18:34 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Hebrews 11:6

I would imagine there was some screening going on. Ardent, arrogant Nazi SS types probably didn’t get that treatment. The regular Wehrmacht stiffs were OK. And as fso301 pointed out; where were they going to go?

After all, this was the United States of America. They had it better here as POWs than they had it back in Germany. That’s why so many tried to come back.


30 posted on 01/16/2015 6:21:21 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
I notice that the countries that made up the western front in January 1945 - France, Germany, Belgium - in January 2015 comprise the western front in the war with radical Islam.

Same as in 732.


31 posted on 01/16/2015 6:22:08 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

And they are not fighting it particularly well.


32 posted on 01/16/2015 6:22:20 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: henkster

Excellent points all. I suppose as long as the POWs were on good behavior, avoiding serious incidents of crime or sabotage, they could be permitted some leniency. I imagine that was explained to them, which would encourage self-policing.


33 posted on 01/16/2015 6:31:38 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
I'm having difficulty thinking through why and how the powers-that-be allowed that.

They probably segregate the officers, SS and give the non rated more slack.

34 posted on 01/16/2015 6:40:46 PM PST by AU72
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To: AU72

Makes sense. Thanks.


35 posted on 01/16/2015 6:54:56 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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