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12 VOL. I, THE UN'VERSITY OF TEXA LETTERS Haven't had so many dr Change of Address (Continued from jJage S, since leaving the desert. Had A 2 1 1944 All next of kin officially listed for sound track is in Itali'an. We gel hair clipped off again. My prin prisoners of war and civilian internees the same pictures as Chiete, a little almost worse than my writing! H LIBHA Y have the PRISONERS OF WAR BULLETIN After this taste of being addressed to them in the Office of the town near by. We're starting a new + Provost· Marshal General. The same soft-ball league next week. We have up, I'm going to be the rna address stencils are used for the mailing to make our own balls out of scraps RI SONERS OF WAR BULLETIN of information and parcel labels from abiding citizen you ever saw. that offiC"e. Therefore, if next of kin in but some very good ones are turned (Note: Several letters from 'shed by the American National Red Cross for the Relatives of American Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees form the Provost Marshal General, Wa~ out. The game is our favorite pas Depart,ment, Washington, D. C., of ers at Oflag 64, complaining changes of address, the BULLETIN as·· time. We have some new fellows the nonarrival of relief supplie coming in this week. Maybe I'll , 2, NO.1 WASHINGTON, D. C. JANUARY 1944 well as official notices should reach them reached us. For a while this s promptly. In advising of a change of ad know some of them. I'm still look dress, next of kin should use the follow- to be the most difficult spot to ing form : • ing for my first letter. We're still getting news about strikes at home. in the whole European pictur, . "J am officially listed as next of kin of Pfc. John Smith, prisoner of war No. I hope Roosevelt sticks to his promise there were regrettably long de American Airmen In Rumania 000 (or sl(rvice serial number) held at to draft them if they refuse to re food parcels and other s Camp ____ _________________ , Germany, Most of the American airmen, took their riJ. eals in the main din geons looking after the patients, the or Camp ___________ _________ __, .I apan. turn to work. reaching A merican prisoners a bering in all about 110 officers ing room: report stated, ·were chosen from I have moved from _____ ______ _____ ·___ _ 64. T here appears to be no Oftag 64 d among the best in Rumania; the ac to ______ : _______ .: ______ and wish all that these delays, in part, were noncommissioned officers, who Breakfast: August 5, 1943 vived the raid on the Ploesti oil Two pieces of bread, mar commodations provided for the men mail sent to me there." by bombing operations whiZ neries last August and became were described as "luxurious." Not If it is more convenient for next of plies were in transit across Ge malade, tea. kin, noti~,\! of change of address can be Dear Mayme and Sam: ·soners of war in Rumania, are Dinner: a single complaint was made, but sent to tlje local Red Cross chapter. but reports and cables receive IV in a "permanent" camp at desires were expressed for relief sup Well, I'm still getting along fairly White cheese, tomatoes, Many Ijames in addition to next of Geneva during October sho is, near Brasov. Brasov is an old soup, meat, fritters, fruit. plies; a shipment of food parcels, ,. kin are on a separate Red Cross mailing well. Have received only two letters ntier town on the northern side clothing" toilet articles, tobacco, and list for PRISONERS OF WAR BULLETIN. 800 standard food packages, 80 Supper: th~ so far. It's hard to find something the Carpathian Mountains and be invalid parcels was sent promptly For thoslf who are not next of kin, parcels, and somemiscellaneo Macaroni and cheese, cab therefore; the following form should be to write when you're cooped up like e the 1919 peace settlement was from Geneva and reached Rumania plies were delivered to the bage stuffed with meat, Sl used' in a~vising the Red Cross (throu~h tllis. I'm studying a bit of Spanish last station in Hungary on the before the end of November. A sec the local :t)hapter or by letter addressed stewed fruit. ~ American officer at Oflag in railroad to the old kingdom of ond shipment left Geneva during f, to PRISONERS OF WAR BULLETIN, Na aitd shorthand just to help pass the At noon each prisoner received tional Headquarters, American Red August 5. Also during August, mania. November. The unwounded prison W days and keep from being hungry half a bottle of beer and on Sundays Cross, Washington '13, D. C.) of a standard food packages were s Sixty-nine airmen, mostly suffering ers in the camp at Timis will get a s( change Qf address: all the time. half a bottle of wine. share of these relief supplies. The from Geneva to 0 flag 64, w ni burns, were wounded before P "I receive the PRISONERS OF WAR BUL We haven't received any parcels or ture, but almost all of them have All the wounded prisoners ex . men there will need additional cloth- Sl LETIN although I am not officially listed July a large shipment of cl ing, because winters in the Car as nel't ; 01 kin of a prisoner of war. I communicatiou from the Interna overed sufficiently to join their pressed satisfaction with the treat pi have ,.moved from ___________________ _ tional Red Cross for two months, or toilet, and comfort articles we wounded comrades near Brasov ment they were receiving from the pathians are usually severe. Arrange la to ___ ..: _____________________________ _ ward from Geneva and shoul are still convalescing in a hospital doctors, the Rumanian officials, and ments have also been made so that d( ever since we have been at Oflag 64. and wi;h the BULLETIN sent to me been distributed in the camp Sinaia-Rumania's foremost health the Red Cross personnel. The sur- (C,ontinued on page 7) st: Can you report that to the American there." Red Cross? August.) ort, and the summer residence of to e royal family, on the southern in pes of the Carpathians. This hos If tal, now called the "Officers' Con ftc lescent H ome," belongs to the yo manian Red Cross and is a con- ~ iI ted ho tel occupied at present only fa: these American prisoners, the Ze Prisoners of War Bulletin .dical personnel, and Red Cross Sec. 562 P. L. & Istants. DECEMBER, 1943 U.S. POSTA Within a few days of the raid a ha Published by PAID legate of the International Com th( The American National Red Cross Washington, D. ·ttee of the Red Cross obtained en Washington 13, D. C. Perll1it No.8 rmission to visit the wounded air Lil n i~ h?spitals at Filipesti, Ploesti, car ~7 d Slllala. The one man at Fili ter Return Postage Guaranteed ti was promptly moved to Sinaia, car d at the time of the delegate's is ( test. report only one wounded man tirr al~ed in the military hospital at the ~tes~~. Although progressing satis on! Serials ACQuisit.ion only, he could not be moved. gra The University of Texas Library 1'h: delegate spent a full day at ha, Austin 12 Texas .Smaia hospital and saw the fol are . lllg meals served to the wounded Convalescing American Hyers, with International Red Cross delegate and am, Postmaster-If addressee has removed and new soners, of whom all except 12 Rumanian Red Cross nurses, in the hospital grounds at Sinaia. address is known, notify sender on FORM 3547. postage for w_hich is guaranteed. 2 . Civilian Internment ,Camps ill Germany of War Camps in Germany-Stalag VII A By Townsend Russell By Russell C. Singleton** J. changed all this, and, bec The latest report received by cable As has already been reported in a For some months while American This particular article is about with the aforementioned bodies, and prisoners there were without their them, we could live fairly U1 Geneva gave the number of previous issue of this BULLETIN, con- nag VII, a civilian internment camp is the one who has private inter ably. The Convention provi o erican prisoners at Stalag VII A . ditions at Stalag vn A, compared own sports equipment, the British for Americans, which, with varia views with the Swiss representative facilities for the preparation being in the neighborhood of with certain other German camps, lent them supplies. tions due to local conditions, can on the latter's inspection visits. be made available. Cooking 400. This represented an increase leave something to be desired . .In In the map of prisoner of war be said to be typical, generally, of He may have one or more assistants. however, were few, and man abou t 600 during the third quar the report of last July, referred to camps in Europe, which apl?eared in all civilian camps-for British as There are also company captains contraptions were used to brin f above, the International Committee the September BULLETIN, Stalag VII well as for Americans. An intern and room seniors for each room. of 1943 .- "exotic" food concoctions. of the Red Cross delegates stated A, although correctly shown in ment camp, military or civilian, When I was in nag VII, internees stalag VII A is one of the largest mentary next-of-kin parcel that American prisoners were held should not be confused with a con lived some 30 to 60 in a room, and d oldest camps in Germany, and square C 3, was incorrectly indexed America should contain real under strict military discipline and centration camp.