Detroit evening times., 1945-06-14
Detroit POWS
Eaf... Eat Again
Ry VERA BROWN


we lived In a barracks, and
had fair food as compared with
the other boys.
But boy, those bOmbings. 1
was more scared than 1 ever
was In the front lines. When
you're fighting you have your
own weapons and your own
artillery is throwing stun over
you.
Between us, the Yanks and
British, there isn't much left OF
Berlin. Anyway, this went on
for weeks. We'd work two
hours, duck for shelter, take IL
for two, then work a little, and I
the British would be over most
Of the night. Toward the end
we just stayed right under
cover. There wasn't much use
In sticking your head out.
Anyway, we hid for three
days at the end and finally the
Russians dug us out, and we
off to a camp, and from there
we came on"
Merle came dashing back, he'd
got his call through to his mother,
who lives al 1889 West Grand
Blvd
IN THE SAME CAMP
Pfc. Carl GaSdritza. 33, of 1889
Clark and Pvt. Ruben Saferin,
26, of 1927 Pershing SaiS they
found themselves together in the
same camp finally
Ruben had been a prisoner of
the Germans for 20 months. They
got him in Africa.
They put me 10 work in
coal mine in Poland, - TO IA
hours "A day"
Carl was caught below Milan
in Italy, was I a ken deep into
Pomerania and finally met up
with Ruben in time 10 march 49
days back and forth between Rus
sian and Yank lines.
Cpl. Edward Ruba, q. OF 6S3S
Longacre, and Sgt. +. Rasmussen.
%. of 625 EastlaMn both air force
men, spent their internment in
Switzerland.
They were both from the 18th
Air Force.
BLOWN OVER SWITZERLAND
I'VE were bombing the Bren-
ner-I was nose gunner and
Rasmussen radio man when
flax got us. We jumped over
Switzerland but the pilot and
cO-piIot had 10 stay on and by
the time they baiied out they
were back over Germany. Be
lieve il or not, the wind blew
them back into neutral SwitZer-
land"
Pfc. Jerome f. Dykstra, q, of
30l Mckinley road. Crosse Pointe,
worked in a Nazi airplane factory,
or rather worked outside in the
yards, mending the tracks which
his pals, the YankS, blew up every
day. He was near Dresden when
We Day came.
I'VE guys just took off from
the Heinie camp and got into
Prague. The Red Cross put us
In hotels, with real beds. oh,
boy, and they fed us"
AND REAL BEDS
Then S/Sgt Robert Walter,
l460l Sussex, piped up:
Speaking of beds, did you
get load of our beds here,
mattresses and everything
Remember those terrible De
cember days of the Battle of the
Bulge?
Pvt. Harold Poole, %, of 1201S
Longacre, a rifleman; Pfc. Ber-
nard j. Gernack. 29. of 1921 Freda
Cpl. George MarkuS, 727 Lycaste
Pic. Lawrence r. Lorenz, were all
caught in il
But they're home, safe, putting
weight on. And they warn their
mothers 10 get the refrigerator
filled. Heavy on the milk. They
figure about three quarts a day
will do for the first week.
SEEMED LIKE YEARS
Pfc. Harry Meldrum. 1924
BeaconSfield. Crosse Pointe, anG
Pvt. Steve +. Gulock Jr., Of 17l4S
Justine, have both been prisoners
since Sept. p. They say the time
seemed like years.
And then there Is S/Sgt. Rob
ert Halehan, 27 of l2907 East
Jefferson, of the AAF, and Pfc
Alex Pilnickl Jr., of 69l4 Easi
Ferry, who each had two help
ingS Of steak.
1t. Leo L. Gladwin, OF 1851
Kenmore. and 1t Harold a. Neh-
mer. of CroSwell. we're over in
officers quarters
Calling on the boys in their bar
racks we found them Slumped
contentedly on their mattresses
and springed hunks
Million HOboes UrQed