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238798 Pfc. Thomas Skaggs United States Army Coy E. 222nd Infantry Regiment from:Louisville, KY Thomas Skaggs Jr was my father. He was captured on 25th of January 1945 in an action associated with the German Operation Nordwind and was held in Stalag IX-B, Bad Orb. This was a notoriously overcrowded and under-provided camp. The prisoners of war there were starving to death, being given only "grass soup" to eat. The camp was liberated on 2nd April 1945 by a task force put together specifically for the mission of freeing the camp's prisoners. My father was within 24 hours of death when the camp was taken. Tom Skaggs went on to flourish back in Louisville, Kentucky where he married Alice Kleier in 1949, became an electrician, and worked on sophisticated machinery in an automobile assembly plant until his retirement in 1984. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.