Evening star., 1943-11-05
Prisoners
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under an English clergyman at the
camp.
1t. Albert w. Glass, jr., from Ma
con, Ga, Liberator bombardier
who was a student at the Univer-
slty of North Carolina before Pearl
Harbor, took up the story. A tall
blond young man, his artificial left
foot was not noticeable until he
walked.
His experience had been similar
to that of 1t. Harrington, except
that he had spent an hour and is
minutes in the North Sea off Am
Isterdam before being picked up.
They thawed me out in heat
hutS," he said German doctors and
Dutch nurses took good care of him
he said, before sending him to a
prison camp.
Read Victory Between Lines.
He was in the same camp as 1t.
Harrington. They were given a
German news report written in Eng
llsh for a camp newspaper.
I'VE could see we were winning
the war he said. I'VE read be-
tween the lines"
On 10 minutes notice he was
called before a commission of Swiss
and German doctors and picked as
an exchange prisoner
Il just grabbed toothbrush and
was gone he said
1t was Pvt. Robert M. Scott, a
paratrooper from Greensboro, N. c..
who spoke of German hopes that the
EngllSh-Speaklng people will save
them from Russia He lost leg in
Sicily after attempting to fight his
wa yback to American lines with l3
others.
Hit as He Crossed Road.
After telling of his landing we'll
behind the German lines in the
dark, he said: The next morning
about $50, the captain and another
man (Ferera> went out on recon-
Nuisance. Ferera came back with l
don't know how many Germans
chasing him. The captain had been
killed"
Pvt. Scott said that he was hit by
a burst of machinegun fire as he
crossed a road He hobbled into a
ditch and lay there, his leg practi-
cauy Shot off. Germans came up,
and a German lieutenant with a
Brooklyn accent, took over, he said.
Il was little bit frightened, he
said. "A couple of guys there wanted
to shoot me, but he Cthe lieutenant)
wouldn't let them. thank God"
The German doctors tried very
hard to save his leg. he said. He
was operated on twice for that pur-
pose, unsuccesSfully.
What an American prisoner thinks
most about. he said, are the bright
lights and beautiful girls AZ home. "
Corpl. Rodney M. Graham, a 90
year-old Chippewa Indian from
Atoka, Okla, and an infantryman
with the 45th, or Indian. Division
in Sicily, also told how hard the
German doctors worked to save
American prisoner patients mixed
up with their own wounded.
His leg was put in splints in a field
hospital in Sicily and placed in a
cast in German-operated hospital
at Naples. The cast was not re-
moved until he got to Walter Reed
Surgeons here said the German doc
tors did an excellent Job. he said
sitting on hospital cot that had
been wheeled in for the interview.
Scratched Hole to Hide Papers.
Mention of heroic action under
pain came from the II patients as
fast as reporters could take them
down.
Pvt. Scott spoke of scratching a
hole to hide his compass and some
papers as he lay with his leg shot
off, before he was captured.
Sergt. Milton K. Williams, 81,
waist gunner on Flying Fortress
whose leg was shot off at $4,000
feet in the air, told of taking a
last drink of free oxygen" to keep
from passing out, and then tearing
up military papers as he hung in
his parachute. He landed a quar-
ter OF mile from hospital, Ger
man doctors were waiting for him
which was what saved his life, he
said.
The beer in the German prison
camps reminded the men of the
near beer of prohibition days, they
said.
The former prisoners emphasized
that at all camps the German ra-
ton was the same-black bread, po-
tatoes and a little margarine.
NO meat ever?" asked a reporter
We'll, a couple of dainty bites
once in a while" said Sergt. Will
llams. And as I am not dainty
they amounted 20 only a third of a
bite for me-"