From Anzio to Stalag 7A Series: Episode III

TRENTON ATTEMPTED An additional ESCAPE on his personal. He headed east, away from the center of the German forces and toward the Russian held region in Poland. He hid in brushy locations throughout the day and traveled by evening. Nonetheless, he was captured once more and temporarily imprisoned in German-occupied Poland at Stalag 2B. PFC Tonasket was once again force-marched back to Germany.

More than the subsequent ten months Trenton was transferred back and forth to numerous stalags, based on exactly where the Russians had been applying the least stress. At one point he was housed in a railroad automobile for 11 days with really small meals or water. Some of the prison camps exactly where he was housed integrated stalags 7A, 2B, 3B, and 3C. Areas of the prison camps had been close to Moosburg, Luckenwald, Hammerstein/Schlochau, and Furstenberg. Even though Trenton was at Luckenwald, he contracted scarlet fever and was hospitalized throughout August and September.

Although he was returned to the prisoner of war camp, Trenton was placed on perform information. Some of the operate was building, but considerably of it was farm labor. Even though the Germans fed their prison­ers superior than did the Japanese, it was nevertheless extremely quick of a light diet regime. Whilst Trenton was captured on April 7, 1944, he weighed 155 pounds; inside the year, he had fallen to 115 pounds.

Although Trenton was at Moosburg Stalag 7A, he believed he saw a familiar face staring at him, but he was unsure. Immediately after a Whilst the American prisoner came up to Trenton and asked if he remembered him. It was Bud Trueblood, a young man from Seltice, Washington. Trenton and Bud have been at the similar grade level in college. Bud grew up merely ten miles from Trenton's hometown of Thorn Creek. They'd played against every single other in basket­ball considering the fact that junior higher, and they played across the line from each and every other in higher college football. The two POWs had many mates and acquaintances in popular. They became speedy mates, shared their war experiences with every single other, and reminisced around the great old days, expanding up in Benewah County. Trenton discovered that Bud were wounded 3 occasions, the initial becoming in the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944.

When a prisoner of the Nazis, Trenton was permitted to maintain a scrap­book. He wrote a couple of comments in the book. Remarkably, he was in a position to sketch numerous drawings of guards and fellow prisoners. Trenton also passed the book about, and his fellow prisoners added com­ments and sketches. Some of his preferred additions had been the labels from a handful of of their Red Cross canned goods. Trenton stated that the scrap­book often gave him hope. He cherished that book and kept it close by the rest of his life.

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