207779 Pte. George Wesley "Jack" Frost US Army Company A 117th Infantry Regiment from:Kentucky, USA My father, George Wesley Frost, known as "Jack", was captured on August 7, 1944 at St Barthelemey in the Battle of Mortain & was a German prisoner in Stalag 7A.
His feet were frozen & he suffered from this until he died. He worked on the train tracks & told us of his traveling to work on cattle cars, standing up. He also told us of the "marches" he was made to go on. He tried unsuccessfully to get reimbursement from the government & I have his letters he wrote about this. He got 2 Bronze Stars for all this. I bought him a brick at the New Orleans D Day Museum & his picture was on one of the walls inside the museum. He was always very sad that his grandparents were from Munich, as were my mother's grandparents.
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