National Archives database of WW II POWs as “returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated from CC 59 Ascoli Picenzo Italy 43-13,” (or who died while prisoners). The following list includes the 253 Americans identified in the U.S. “All the POWs present in the camp escaped en masse the evening of 14 September 1943 exactly six days after the Armistice had been announced.” The number of English POWs in the same span of time decreased from 1,337 to 313. In fact the number of the latter increased from 445 in March ’43 to 913 two months later, that is in June when the Red Cross delegates inspected the camp for the last time. “During 1943 many English POWs were transferred to Sforzacosta’s prison camp (CPG 53) and also to various working camps in North Italy in order to make space for American POWs. In the latter the total figure of POWs is 1902 and the slight difference of 11 POWs between the two totals is not of significance. Figures of other nationalities of the above POWs are in the Swiss Red Cross report that covers the same period. “For a total of 1913 POWs, it should be noting that with ‘British’ Italian Authorities included other nationalities-Irish, Canadians, Cypriots, New Zealanders, Australians, Poles, South Africans, Palestinians (2), Maltese (2), Rhodesians (1) and Norwegians (6).

“According to the Italian military authority, in March 1943 Servigliano’s camp held: 1,445 British 464 Americans 4 French I had honor of getting the know three of the men first-hand-Ralph Hoag, Roland Rakow, and Neil Rorssell-through email, over the phone, or by letter.Ĭoncerning the nationalities of prisoners of Camp 59, Giuseppe Millozzi, in his splendid study of Allied Prisoners of War in the Region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano, writes: They represent the first Camp 59 POWs I was aware of in 2008. The men on this page are just a sample of the thousands of prisoners who passed through P.G.

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