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