Stalag Luft I Photos

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  1. (l. to r.) Lt. Trian Neag, Lt. Walter M. Culbert, Lt. Okey DeRaimo in front of the German guard barracks they occupied after their liberation
  2. (l. to r.) Lt. S.M. Alexander, Lt. Okey DeRaimo, Lt. Don DeLaura with Stalag Luft I POW camp in background
  3. Room 12, Block 7. (rear l. to r.) Lts. Scott, Hennegan, DeRaimo; (middle l. to r.); Lt. Calvert, ? (cut off); (front l. to r.) Lts. Larsen, Coble, S.M. Alexander (cut off)
  4. “My home.” Alex (S.M. Alexander, l.) and Okey (Okey DeRaimo, r.) in front of Kgf.(?) Barracks 7
  5. 4 men unidentified in front of “My room in jerry bks. – M.P. sgd.(squad ?)”
  6. Pilot Ed Hennegan, Bombardier Gene Saur, Gene’s bks. in North II
  7. Walter M. Culbert in front of Bks. 7. Our well on other side of fence.
  8. (l. to r.) “Lts. Garner & Neag (?)” (cut off)
  9. Russ Crans (center), Ted Davis from Collingswood, NJ (right), in front of German Officers Club. We ate here while waiting to leave Barth.
  10. Alex (S.M. Alexander) with armbands – M.P. on left, Russian M.P. on right.
  11. (Gene) Saur, (Ed) Hennegan, McEvoy
  12. Walter M. Culbert in front of jerry barracks, wearing jerry fatigue pants
  13. (Group photo) Just before leaving our barbed wire home for ever – May 15 – Zeke Donovan ext.(extreme) left – Capt. Danby ext. right – sgd. commander
  14. Unidentified group of men with truck in front of camp headquarters building
  15. German warehouses and stable
  16. American kriegies in camp leaving for the airport on the first leg home
  17. Loading baggage on Russian trucks. R.A.F. leaving camp
  18. Sports field in south comple
  19. Gene Saur and Walter M. Culbert in front of “a makeshift arrangement due to the lack of water after liberation”
  20. Russian enlisted man and his truck
  21. South Compound – clothing storage in front – coal sheds behind
  22. Main gate to our compound – hospital to left. Radar school in background
  23. Camp headquarters across this street. Main gate to the camp and road to Barth
  24. These are the finished maple beds in which we dreamed the months away
  25. Entrance to North Compound # 1 – Red Cross package warehouse
  26. First Americans to reach camp from Rostock, Germany
  27. Russian General Borisoff reviewing RAF prisoners
  28. German Officer’s Club, left; guard tower and Russian prisoners’ barracks, right
  29. Had our ice rink here during the Winter. Part of the vegetable garden in front. Barth in background
  30. View from guard tower [image 28]. Hospital roof in front. Barth cathedral and gate through city wall in rear
  31. Part of Baltic to the left, and woods to the north of the camp
  32. Inlet from the Baltic Sea – small village and fishing boats across the water
  33. Inlet again – one of our popular pastimes – watching traffic along the road in the background
  34. Okey DeRaimo and Barth (blurred background)
  35. l. to r. Okey [DeRaimo], Herb Clough, and me [Walt Culbert] – Farm in rear
  36. r. to l. Okey [DeRaimo] and me [Walt Culbert]
  37. Russians with load of confiscated hay
  38. [Ed] Hennegan & [S.M.] Alexander – center of German radar school
  39. Radar School & Stalag Luft I (in background)
  40. Fockewulf 190 – fighter at Barth
  41. German med[ium?] bomber JU-88 in hangar at Barth
  42. two persons unknown
  43. r. to l. Bud Walton and Me
  44. Radar School and prison bks. at right rear. Inlet to left
  45. Radar School viewed from inlet [Image 44]
  46. Dog kennels in rear of German guard bks. – ran free at night
  47. Waiting for our ship to land. Capt. Danby center, foreground. Jerry operations tower and wind sock in background
  48. Leaving Rheims [France]
  49. Me – field at Rheims [France]
  50. Looking down on St. Valery, France on the channel coast
  51. Part of the environs around Camp Lucky Strike – 40 km south of Dieppe, France. “This POW [sign] refers to the Jerries now!”
  52. A French farmyard near [Camp] Lucky Strike
  53. Alex [S.M. Alexander], [Camp] Lucky Strike [France]
  54. Field at Rheims, Fra.[nce] leaving for LeHavre [France] via G47
  55. All aboard – note costume on one ex-Kriegie
  56. The guys with the loot [swords] are Ted Davis and Russ Crans [also Walt Culbert, right]

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