YMCA Wartime Log maintained by Chester Strunk in Stalag Luft III : Diary/Journal; Art; Ephemera; Military Papers; Photograph; Scrapbook; Newspaper Clippings; Correspondence 19440700-19450600.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Language Note:

Text in English, German.

Summary:

Description: YMCA Wartime Log maintained by Chester Strunk in Stalag Luft III. Strunk was a navigator on the B-17 "Heaven Can Wait" whose crew bailed out on a mission to Ploesti in July 1944. The log includes the names of all crew members, color drawings of a guard tower, drawing of the United States and railroad lines, poems, copied new article on German propaganda and the 'Murder Incorporated' incident, lists of German food rations, contents of Red Cross packages, British and Canadian food rations, timeline of WWII 'highlights' from Pearl Harbor to December 1944, POW [prisoner of war] vocabulary and slag, hand-drawn map of the South Camp of Stalag Luft III, examples of German POW stationery, Strunk's POW identification card, Western Union telegrams concerning Strunk as MIA and then POW, hand-drawn map of Eastern Europe and Strunk's journey from capture to camp, Christmas lists, statistics on POW population, hand-drawn map of Benton Harbor, Michigan, calendar from July 1944 through January 1945, list of books, diary of events in camp from January through June 1945 including the liberation of the camp and returning home.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on June 12, 2019).