There,was,an Italian internment camp in Boston near where,UMass Boston is now on Columbia Point.
Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Jan 16, 2018 10:23 PM, "Curley McLain via Mercedes" < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I found this one, documenting Italian POWs at Ackley, IA I am not sure > what camp they were housed at. > > https://www.reddit.com/r/wwiipics/comments/7fxxpr/italian_ > pows_on_my_grandfathers_farm_summer_1944/ > > The first article I linked said some Italians were sent to Clarinda, but > the algona camp would have been a lot closer to Ackley. There was a > vegetable canning plant in Ackley so it is likely a branch camp was there, > but I did not find any reference to it. > > Lots of lost memory as that generation dies off. > >> Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> January 16, 2018 at 4:47 PM >> There were POW camps on Lake of the Woods south of Kenora during the war >> too. I am told that they even gave the prisoners guns and let them go >> hunting. No worries I guess as these guys had it made in the shade. No way >> they wanted to escape and go back to the war. They spent the rest of the >> war being treated pretty well. >> There was, until only a few years ago, one of the former prisoners who >> owned a cottage in the area and came back every summer from Germany. >> >> RB >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
