Rough Road Home [Footnotes]
and POW links           

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John Toland's book BATTLE, the story of the bulge, copyright 1959 by Meridian Books, the paperback edition on page 183, 21st of December 1944 "At 8:05 P.M. Major Don Boyer was still in position east of St. Vith. He heard heavy tanks creaking and clanking down the Schonberg road. Quickly he shifted machine gun and mortar fire to the road. Dark enemy forms running behind the tanks dropped or ran to the rear. Boyer figured if he could stop the infantry, someone else could take care of any tanks that punched through. He telephoned the forward observer of the 275th Armored Field artillery, Lt Shanahan.  "Mike" he cried, " give me all the fire you can on the Schonberg road from the main line of resistance east."  In two minutes shells ripped overhead and exploded on the road. But German tanks kept coming through."  

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Irving Rosen, "C" Battery Clerk, said about Lt. Shanahan's battlefield commission and capture,
"...I don't know exactly why Mike received a commission. I do know that he was in the thick of it and was captured once, escaped and was captured again. I  think he pinpointed some targets and stayed until he was sure they were wiped out."

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Stalag IVB was in Torgau, Germany on the Elbe river approx. 30 miles northeast of Leipzig. Liberated 23 April 1945 by the Red Army 
click Torgau for link to Expidia map

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POW camps, "Kriegsgefangenenlager":  
"Oflag (Offizierlager)" "Officers Camp",  internment camp for war prisoners of officer rank.
"Stalag (Stammlager)" " Base Camp", housed enlisted POW's 
               The Germans classified the camps as follows:
                    [Type of camp] [Military District] [first, second, third camp in district]
                     Thus Stalag IVB was the second enlistedmen's camp in District IV [ Leipzig region ].

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Oflag 64 was in Schubin or Szubin, Poland approx. 125 miles west-northwest of Warsaw. See a drawing of Oflag 64, taken from Achtung - Oflag 64 - 1943 - 45 .  click Szubin for link to Expidia map