POW Listing - 883rd FA Battalion
According to the National Archives, these
Trailblazers were German prisoners of war. However, since there are some errors
and omissions in coding, we cannot independently verify each name on the list.
Also, there are some discrepancies between this list and other official sources
about the manner of death . Additional information about these soldiers can be
found at the National Archives, American Battlefield Commission, and Trailblazer
web sites. Several former POW's provided documentation of prisoner status and
were included on this list.
As of
this posting, we believe that 21 Trailblazers were sent from Stalag 9B Bad Orb
to the Berga slave labor camp, a sub-camp of the notorious
Buchenwald (more
information).
No indication of their transport to Berga in February, 1945, is provided by the
National Archives data file. Therefore, we have added "Berga" to the listings of
those POW's who were sent to this slave labor camp.
Additional information about Berga can be
found through the links above and below the table. Recent books by Roger Cohen
and Flint Whitlock also document the hell of Berga. Twenty-five percent of the
Berga prisoners were worked to death (in comparison to an overall death rate of
2.5% for all American POW's held by the Germans).
Revised Feb. 7, 2006 as researched
by Diane Kessler.
|
NAME |
RANK |
REPORTED MISSING |
STATUS |
CAMP |
|
BOWLIN, DALE F |
TEC5 |
21-Feb-45 |
Returned |
|
|
STEWART, GERALD F |
PVT |
21-Feb-45 |
Returned |
|
|
OGILVIE, ROBERT S |
TEC5 |
23-Feb-45 |
Returned |
|
|
WASYLYSHYN, WASYL A |
SGT |
23-Feb-45 |
Returned |
|
Related Items -
POW List - Norm Fellman, Berga Am Elster -
Bad
Orb, Tony Acevedo - Information on
Berga -
Information on
Bad Orb (Stalag IXB) -
An American Slave in Nazi Germany
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