by Barbara Jane Hannon | May 13, 2024 | Prisoner of War Camp
During WWII approximately 28,000 airmen from the US 8th Air Force had to parachute over Germany out of burning planes and most were immediately captured by the Germans and transported to various POW (Stalags) around the Reich. Many of these airmen spent up to two...
by Barbara Jane Hannon | May 6, 2024 | Red Cross
The Contributions of the International Red Cross the lives of Allied POWs imprisoned in Germany during WWII The role of the International Red Cross based in Geneva Switzerland and its subsidiaries, the American Red Cross, British Red Cross and Canadian Red Cross...
by Barbara Jane Hannon | Apr 29, 2024 | Operation Revival
B-17s after landing in Barth to rescue the Stalag Luft 1 POWS and take them to France After the war was over, the 9000 POWs at Stalag Luft 1 were stranded in north eastern Germany clear up on the Baltic Sea. There were no US or British armies in far northern Germany...
by Barbara Jane Hannon | Apr 22, 2024 | Prisoner of War Camp
On January 11, 1944, my father’s plane was hit by FLAK and lost two engines. Unable to keep up with their squadron, the crippled plane was attacked by German fighters who killed their radio operator. The nine surviving crew had to parachute out into the snowy fields...
by Barbara Jane Hannon | Apr 15, 2024 | Airbase
On August 28, 1943, my father and the crew of his B-17, left the US and flew their bomber to Ridgewell Airbase in Essex England where they joined the 533rd Squadron of the US 8th Air Force’s 381st Heavy Bomb Group stationed there. RAF Ridgewell Airbase was...
