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Young Partisan William Scalabroni
William Scalabroni in 1942. Mattia De Santis says, “One year later he would be a partisan in this place.” Mattia De Santis from Ascoli Piceno, Italy, wrote to me two weeks ago, “I’m the nephew of two...
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The Camp 59 Tunnelers
Thick, well-guarded walls must have seemed an impenetrable barrier to the prisoners of P.G. 59. But miners in the camp envisioned another way out. In his dissertation on Allied Prisoners of War in the...
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Louis VanSlooten’s Story
Louis VanSlooten before going overseas I have known Louis VanSlooten’s son Tom VanSlooten since 2008. Tom was one of the first family members of Camp 59 POWs I met when I began my research into the...
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Recognition of Bastiano Crescenzi
Sebastiano “Bastiano” Crescenzi I received an email this week from Maurizio Roscetti, who lives with his wife, Valentina Crescenzi, near the village of Canneto Sabino, between the city of Rome and...
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Charles Stewart—Mediterranean and Pacific
Charles J. Stewart I’ve been in communication recently with Donna Stewart Prato, whose uncle, Charles Stewart, was a POW in P.G. 59. She wrote, “My cousin, Charles Stewart Jr, and I are researching my...
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Ronald Bertie Bones—An Album
“A portrait of Bertie from an unknown time,” says Jeremy Bones, “but given he looks young, it could be pre-WW2.” I received an email last month from Jeremy Bones. He wrote, “I am currently conducting...
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Ronald Streatfield in Switzerland
Ronald Arthur Streatfield The photos in this post were sent to me by Tracy Jayne Streatfield, whose grandfather, Ronald Arthur Streatfield, was a prisoner in Camp 59. “Ron married Sylvia Shrubb and...
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Sergeant Allan Lee Downed in Greece
Bristol Type 142m Blenheim I aircraft of the Royal Air Forces in flight. Image from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. I heard this week from Thanos Antonelos, who lives in Athens, Greece....
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