Wait, what? Guineas in Southie? WTF? That ain’t right! I guess they would know better than to try to escape. Likely be worse getting out of Southie than fighting in yurp and their survival chances would be lowah.
--R Sent from iPhone > On Jan 16, 2018, at 10:48 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
