205563 Private Robert May Spahr United States Army 1st Battalion 26th Infantry from:Dover, PA My lovely Grandfather, Private Robert M. Spahr, was a POW captured in Tunisia, North Africa. He was held for 26 months. He was in Stalag 3B according to the address on his prisoner mail. When he was captured, his name and my great-grandmother's name and address, was voiced over short-wave radio from Germany on a program called Calling Back Home. Sixty nine strangers wrote to my great-grandmother to alert her that Robert was being held. They all heard the news on the short-wave. It's detailed in World War II Radio Heroes: Letters of Compassion (2008) a book I wrote to highlight these great people. My grandfather came back, married his sweetheart and had 4 kids. He passed away far too early, in 1984.I'm his only grandchild. I'm due with his great-grandbaby in July. I love and miss you Pappy.
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