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Charles H. Ebright
Charles Herbert Ebright On January 28, I posted on this site a list of 51 escapees who were helped by Domenico Mancini, an Italian. (See “Domenico Mancini—A Key Italian Assister.”) According to Allied...
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Tom Alman—Back Home in Western Australia
Ray Worthington (son of P.G. 59 escapee Les Worthington) and Linda Veness (daughter of escapee Jim McMahon) discovered and shared this 1944 news article with me this week. Kalgoorlie Soldier Escaped...
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Young Partisan William Scalabroni
William Scalabroni in 1942. Mattia De Santis says, “One year later he would be a partisan in this place.” Mattia De Santis from Ascoli Piceno, Italy, wrote to me two weeks ago, “I’m the nephew of two...
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The Camp 59 Tunnelers
Thick, well-guarded walls must have seemed an impenetrable barrier to the prisoners of P.G. 59. But miners in the camp envisioned another way out. In his dissertation on Allied Prisoners of War in the...
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Louis VanSlooten’s Story
Louis VanSlooten before going overseas I have known Louis VanSlooten’s son Tom VanSlooten since 2008. Tom was one of the first family members of Camp 59 POWs I met when I began my research into the...
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