Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe this week the Patton legend was still growing, its newest a song composed by Americans liberated at the Ziegenhain Prison Camp. After the General's 6th Armored Division had rolled up and turned them loose, the Yanks set their theme song to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It began...
Reported Missing. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, cool, slender Army chaplain credited with minting the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes," hero of a 1942 Bataan hospital bombing during which he calmed patients with prayer despite his own shrapnel-broken arm; in the sinking of a Japanese prison ship by a U.S. submarine last December...
Over two years ago the Marine Corps contracted with the Pennsylvania State Department of Welfare for millions of tent pegs to be made in prison workshops at Eastern. Part of this fat contract was farmed out by the Welfare Department to the four inmates at Eastern, who operate their own hobby shop...
Though beardless adolescents walked among them, they were all gaunt and old beyond their years. In the station's bright light they blinked, like men emerging from a cavern of despair into the sun. They were the lost sons of France, home from the prison camps of Germany, the vanguard of 2,500,000 prisoners of war still shut up in German Stalags and labor camps...
...titles, chosen by an advisory committee of editors under Army and Navy supervision, are added at the rate of 40 a month, delivered like K rations by plane, ship, train or parachute wherever there are G.I.s to read them. Servicemen in enemy prison camps get them (through the International Y.M.C.A.) at the rate of some 100,000 a month, and in hospitals their lightness is a boon to the wounded...