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Want to know more about Stalag 9B Prisoner of War Camp? There are:18 items tagged Stalag 9B Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
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John Robinson 106 Division (d.1st March 1945) My father's older brother John, was imprisoned at Stalag 9B following the
surrender of the 106th Division during the early stages of the Battle of
the Bulge. John Robinson was in the 422 Regiment of the 106th Division
and was in Company "C." John Robinson died of starvation on March 1st 1945 at Stalag 9B. His remains were not returned to the United States until
August of 1951 as Russian military forces ultimately claimed the area of
Stalag 9B as Soviet domain.
Thanks for this great memorial.
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Albert Sanders My father, Albert Sanders, was in Stalag 9B. He never spoke about his time there but was angry at the fact that there was no support for him and others as they got older. I have a selection of photos of familly that were sent to him with the Stalag stamp on the back. He always wondered how such a bad place could be in such a nice area without anyone being alarmed.
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Staff Sergeant Eugene G Bailey Company K 28th Infantry Division, 112th Regiment My dad, Eugene G. Bailey, was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army, 28th Infantry Division, 112th Regiment, Company K during WW2. He was in four campaigns including the Battle of the Bulge where he was taken prisoner on December 17, 1944. He arrived in Bad Orb Stalag IX B on December 29, 1944 and remained there until late January 1945 when he was transferred to Stalag IXA. This information is from a journal he wrote during his time just before the Battle of the Bulge. The dates of this journal are from December 13, 1944 until the end of March 1945. However, there are not any entries for Feb. My dad did not talk about his time in the service or about being a POW. I do know that he weighed only 79 pounds upon his return to the states.
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PFC. Michael Louis Codian 28th Infantry Division Michael Codian was captured in the Huertgen Forest and spent the rest of the war in Stalags 12A and 9B Limburg An Der Lahn, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
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Glenn Broin Knudson Glenn Knudson born 1913, my great uncle, was a POW in World War 2. I just found this out.
He was sent to Stalag 12A and then to Stalag 9B at Limburg An Der Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
I think he was in the Navy, but I'm not sure.
He died in 1992.
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Pvt. Jim H. Gilmore 422nd Infantry Regiment (d.11th Jan 1946) As a young child, I remember seeing a military document and a picture of my uncle, Jim Gilmor who served in the US Army and died at POW camp Stalag 9B in Bad Orb, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. My grandmother framed it and hung in her home for all to see and remember the price for freedom, and also to remember her loss of a son. He gave the ultimate sacrifice so others could enjoy the freedom many take for granted.
As I’ve gotten older and reflect on the many family members of mine who have served, I would really like to know what happened to his remains. I was told he was buried there where he died and would like to learn more about where he is. Who thinks of the fallen when they are gone? Who will praise them for giving us freedom and remember them when they helped in liberating the oppressed at the hands of a tyrant? I will. I will be the one to remember you.
If possible, could you advise me on how to go about locating his remains? I don’t know where he rests.
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T5 Cpl. Henry Edward Freedman 422nd Infantry Regiment Henry Freedman served with the 422nd Infantry Regiment, US Army in WW2. He was captured 19th of December 1944 at Bliealf, Germany and arrived as a POW at Stalag IXB Bad Orb, 25th of December 1944 and was segregated in barracks 32.
On 25th January 1945 he was sent to Stalag IXA, Zeigenhain and was liberated 30th of March 1945. Henry spent a month in hospital in France and arrived back in the States 9th of May 1945 to be discharged 24th of November 1945.
Henry just celebrated his 98th birthday living in Suwanee, Ga.
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Pte. Tom Swinburne "Bud" Abbott Airborne Signals 1st Parachute Brigade Tom Abbott was my dad.
He was 21 when captured in Arnhem and sent to a POW camp in Limburg, Germany. He escaped with a Canadian fellow inmate from a working party repairing the railway marshalling yards after an RAF raid. When recaptured, they were found to have pureed apples and margarine in their pockets that they had found in a railway wagon. Because they had food on them they were accused of looting, and a formal request to execute them was made. The permission to execute was granted, but before the sentence was carried out the camp was bombed on Christmas Eve and Dad survived because they were being held in an underground cell. The Germans demanded that everybody with carpentry knowledge help rebuild the huts. Dad immediately claimed to be a carpenter (he was actually a glassblower), and in the ensuing mayhem he and his Canadian buddy were able to get into the Disciplinary Officer's hut and destroy the order to execute.
Shortly afterwards, they were sent to a POW camp in Bad Orb where he remained until liberated by the Americans. Dad’s overriding memory of Bad Orb was arriving after being marched there from Limburg to hear gunfire coming from the surrounding woodland. On inquiring what was happening, they were told that in order to make room for them the Russians that had previously been prisoners there were being shot because the Germans had no room for them, and Russia had not signed the Geneva Convention.
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PFC. Robert G. Vial 1st Infantry My Uncle Bob Vial was a POW at Stalag 12A and 9B from 23rd of November 1944 until liberated by the Russians. The Russians saw, and stole his wristwatch when he was being liberated. He also had mentioned his wound was itching so he unwrapped his bandage to discover there was a spider under it.
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Sgt. Riner Howard Thompson 811th Tank Destroyer Heavy Battalion My father, Riner Thompson, was captured at the Battle of the Bulge in December 1945 and was POW in Stalag 9B.
He was liberated in April or May 1945
He never talked about the war or camp.
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Sgt. Robert Wheeler Coston 423rd Infantry Regiment 106th Infantry Division My father, Robert W. Coston Sr., was a buck sergeant in 1944. His company was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and his men marched into Germany. While housed in Stalag 9B, many starving soldiers contracted cholera or dysentery, my dad included. He described how the floorboards had gaps so wide that the waste from the ill men fell onto people he believed were Jewish or Jewish sympathizers. The intent of those in charge, he perceived, was to humiliate and degrade those poor people. My dad credited his survival to an African-American private who caught rats, cooked them, and fed him. I could never recall the name of this man. If anyone knows who this unselfish soldier was, I would like to know. This unnamed soldier was a big hero in my dad's eyes.
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PFC. Marion Woodrow Carter Co.I, 3rd Battalion 335th Infantry Regiment PFC Marion W. Carter, Infantry Rifleman, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 335th Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division
He received 1st Bronze Star for gallantry at the Battle of Lindern.
He received 2nd Bronze Star and Purple Heart during the Battle of the Bulge, at Rochefort Belgium.
He was listed as Missing in Action on 24th December 1944, and then listed as Prisoner of War on 25th of December 1944, by the Red Cross.
He was taken to Stalag 9B, Bad Orb, and stayed until liberated in April 1945.
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Capt. Ralph E. Manuel 3rd Btn. I Coy. 47th Infantry Regiment My Great Uncle Ralph Manuel was captured on the 12th of November 1944 leading his men in action at Bovenburg Farm, North of Hamich, Germany. He was first held in Stalag 12A prisoner of war camp, then transferred to 9B.
According to family stories he escaped and eventually made his way back to his unit, however a Fort Benning Infantry School report says he was recaptured after escaping by the Russians and returned to the US Army. Records dated 30th of March 1945 confirm he did return to the 47th.
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Pte. Charles Edward Nutter My father, Charles Nutter didn't talk much about his interment in Stalag 9b in Bad Orb Prussia. But his closet was a treasure trove of information to me. I remember the blue box that held that beautiful Purple Heart medal. There were more but either I never asked or he never spoke about them.
He also had a bayonet and a cup that he said had been made from the wing of a German plane. Being a boy from the hills of Arkansas, he didn't care for Germany because he said it was too flat not a hill or even a rise.
I have a post card he sent home to my Mother. He had had surgery on his elbow, for what I don't know, but he had the part they took off in a little brown jar. As a young child, I thought that was cool. He also had some playing cards. One set, I remember, that had jokes on them. I remember the pride I took in seeing that black and white POW license plate on our car.
My daughter recently received a scholarship from our local VFW, in part because of her father's service in the Air Force in the 70s. But mostly because of my dad's service and sacrifice. One of the veterans came and spoke to us before the presentation of her scholarship, he told me that they may have to close this VFW, and when he said that I couldn't help but tear up. I was so saddened by that fact. I thought about what those men & their families went through. I remember my dad saying that he had been sent out on a death march, but was liberated. I don't think I understood the gravity of that until I was much older. According to the Red Cross he was imprisoned on 21st of December 1944 and the last report was made on 15th of May 1945. He was imprisoned for 145 days.
I have always been so drawn to any thing WW2, especially books on the subject. I guess that interest was passed down to my youngest daughter. She has read so many books and articles on WW2, so many in fact that her senior English teacher actually called her out of class and asked if everything was ok. "We need to remember our past, or we're doomed to repeat it" I think about this often, and hope that generations to come will also have an interest in why we are a strong country, why our military personnel are risking their lives still today defending this great country.
I want to thank all those who served, serve, and even will serve, for what they do for our country and its people. We are blessed and we need to remain One Nation Under God!
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TEC5. Charles Anthony Diller Charles's brother, George A. Diller, Jr., was killed on 15th of September 1944 at the Battle of Morotai, and in his obituary it mentioned that his brother Charles was in the service and was on overseas.
The WWII Army Enlistment Records for Shiawassee Co. 1938 - 1946
record that Charles Diller enlisted in 1943 and served in Germany. He was a Prisoner of war at Stalag 9B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
His parents were George A. Diller and Rose M. Fox (a cousin of mine) and he was born in July 1923 in Pewamo, Michigan. The family moved by 1940 to Durand, Shiawassee, Michigan. Charles died in 24 Feb 1992 in Michigan.
My father Marvin Mathew Fox served with the U.S. Army in the Aleutians and in the European Theatre of War.
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John Robinson 106 Division (d.1st March 1945) My father's older brother John, was imprisoned at Stalag 9B following the
surrender of the 106th Division during the early stages of the Battle of
the Bulge. John Robinson was in the 422 Regiment of the 106th Division
and was in Company "C." John Robinson died of starvation on March 1st 1945 at Stalag 9B. His remains were not returned to the United States until
August of 1951 as Russian military forces ultimately claimed the area of
Stalag 9B as Soviet domain.
Thanks for this great memorial.
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Albert Sanders My father, Albert Sanders, was in Stalag 9B. He never spoke about his time there but was angry at the fact that there was no support for him and others as they got older. I have a selection of photos of familly that were sent to him with the Stalag stamp on the back. He always wondered how such a bad place could be in such a nice area without anyone being alarmed.
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Staff Sergeant Eugene G Bailey Company K 28th Infantry Division, 112th Regiment My dad, Eugene G. Bailey, was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army, 28th Infantry Division, 112th Regiment, Company K during WW2. He was in four campaigns including the Battle of the Bulge where he was taken prisoner on December 17, 1944. He arrived in Bad Orb Stalag IX B on December 29, 1944 and remained there until late January 1945 when he was transferred to Stalag IXA. This information is from a journal he wrote during his time just before the Battle of the Bulge. The dates of this journal are from December 13, 1944 until the end of March 1945. However, there are not any entries for Feb. My dad did not talk about his time in the service or about being a POW. I do know that he weighed only 79 pounds upon his return to the states.
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PFC. Michael Louis Codian 28th Infantry Division Michael Codian was captured in the Huertgen Forest and spent the rest of the war in Stalags 12A and 9B Limburg An Der Lahn, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
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Glenn Broin Knudson Glenn Knudson born 1913, my great uncle, was a POW in World War 2. I just found this out.
He was sent to Stalag 12A and then to Stalag 9B at Limburg An Der Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
I think he was in the Navy, but I'm not sure.
He died in 1992.
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Pvt. Jim H. Gilmore 422nd Infantry Regiment (d.11th Jan 1946) As a young child, I remember seeing a military document and a picture of my uncle, Jim Gilmor who served in the US Army and died at POW camp Stalag 9B in Bad Orb, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. My grandmother framed it and hung in her home for all to see and remember the price for freedom, and also to remember her loss of a son. He gave the ultimate sacrifice so others could enjoy the freedom many take for granted.
As I’ve gotten older and reflect on the many family members of mine who have served, I would really like to know what happened to his remains. I was told he was buried there where he died and would like to learn more about where he is. Who thinks of the fallen when they are gone? Who will praise them for giving us freedom and remember them when they helped in liberating the oppressed at the hands of a tyrant? I will. I will be the one to remember you.
If possible, could you advise me on how to go about locating his remains? I don’t know where he rests.
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T5 Cpl. Henry Edward Freedman 422nd Infantry Regiment Henry Freedman served with the 422nd Infantry Regiment, US Army in WW2. He was captured 19th of December 1944 at Bliealf, Germany and arrived as a POW at Stalag IXB Bad Orb, 25th of December 1944 and was segregated in barracks 32.
On 25th January 1945 he was sent to Stalag IXA, Zeigenhain and was liberated 30th of March 1945. Henry spent a month in hospital in France and arrived back in the States 9th of May 1945 to be discharged 24th of November 1945.
Henry just celebrated his 98th birthday living in Suwanee, Ga.
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Pte. Tom Swinburne "Bud" Abbott Airborne Signals 1st Parachute Brigade Tom Abbott was my dad.
He was 21 when captured in Arnhem and sent to a POW camp in Limburg, Germany. He escaped with a Canadian fellow inmate from a working party repairing the railway marshalling yards after an RAF raid. When recaptured, they were found to have pureed apples and margarine in their pockets that they had found in a railway wagon. Because they had food on them they were accused of looting, and a formal request to execute them was made. The permission to execute was granted, but before the sentence was carried out the camp was bombed on Christmas Eve and Dad survived because they were being held in an underground cell. The Germans demanded that everybody with carpentry knowledge help rebuild the huts. Dad immediately claimed to be a carpenter (he was actually a glassblower), and in the ensuing mayhem he and his Canadian buddy were able to get into the Disciplinary Officer's hut and destroy the order to execute.
Shortly afterwards, they were sent to a POW camp in Bad Orb where he remained until liberated by the Americans. Dad’s overriding memory of Bad Orb was arriving after being marched there from Limburg to hear gunfire coming from the surrounding woodland. On inquiring what was happening, they were told that in order to make room for them the Russians that had previously been prisoners there were being shot because the Germans had no room for them, and Russia had not signed the Geneva Convention.
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PFC. Robert G. Vial 1st Infantry My Uncle Bob Vial was a POW at Stalag 12A and 9B from 23rd of November 1944 until liberated by the Russians. The Russians saw, and stole his wristwatch when he was being liberated. He also had mentioned his wound was itching so he unwrapped his bandage to discover there was a spider under it.
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Sgt. Riner Howard Thompson 811th Tank Destroyer Heavy Battalion My father, Riner Thompson, was captured at the Battle of the Bulge in December 1945 and was POW in Stalag 9B.
He was liberated in April or May 1945
He never talked about the war or camp.
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Sgt. Robert Wheeler Coston 423rd Infantry Regiment 106th Infantry Division My father, Robert W. Coston Sr., was a buck sergeant in 1944. His company was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and his men marched into Germany. While housed in Stalag 9B, many starving soldiers contracted cholera or dysentery, my dad included. He described how the floorboards had gaps so wide that the waste from the ill men fell onto people he believed were Jewish or Jewish sympathizers. The intent of those in charge, he perceived, was to humiliate and degrade those poor people. My dad credited his survival to an African-American private who caught rats, cooked them, and fed him. I could never recall the name of this man. If anyone knows who this unselfish soldier was, I would like to know. This unnamed soldier was a big hero in my dad's eyes.
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PFC. Marion Woodrow Carter Co.I, 3rd Battalion 335th Infantry Regiment PFC Marion W. Carter, Infantry Rifleman, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 335th Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division
He received 1st Bronze Star for gallantry at the Battle of Lindern.
He received 2nd Bronze Star and Purple Heart during the Battle of the Bulge, at Rochefort Belgium.
He was listed as Missing in Action on 24th December 1944, and then listed as Prisoner of War on 25th of December 1944, by the Red Cross.
He was taken to Stalag 9B, Bad Orb, and stayed until liberated in April 1945.
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Capt. Ralph E. Manuel 3rd Btn. I Coy. 47th Infantry Regiment My Great Uncle Ralph Manuel was captured on the 12th of November 1944 leading his men in action at Bovenburg Farm, North of Hamich, Germany. He was first held in Stalag 12A prisoner of war camp, then transferred to 9B.
According to family stories he escaped and eventually made his way back to his unit, however a Fort Benning Infantry School report says he was recaptured after escaping by the Russians and returned to the US Army. Records dated 30th of March 1945 confirm he did return to the 47th.
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Pte. Charles Edward Nutter My father, Charles Nutter didn't talk much about his interment in Stalag 9b in Bad Orb Prussia. But his closet was a treasure trove of information to me. I remember the blue box that held that beautiful Purple Heart medal. There were more but either I never asked or he never spoke about them.
He also had a bayonet and a cup that he said had been made from the wing of a German plane. Being a boy from the hills of Arkansas, he didn't care for Germany because he said it was too flat not a hill or even a rise.
I have a post card he sent home to my Mother. He had had surgery on his elbow, for what I don't know, but he had the part they took off in a little brown jar. As a young child, I thought that was cool. He also had some playing cards. One set, I remember, that had jokes on them. I remember the pride I took in seeing that black and white POW license plate on our car.
My daughter recently received a scholarship from our local VFW, in part because of her father's service in the Air Force in the 70s. But mostly because of my dad's service and sacrifice. One of the veterans came and spoke to us before the presentation of her scholarship, he told me that they may have to close this VFW, and when he said that I couldn't help but tear up. I was so saddened by that fact. I thought about what those men & their families went through. I remember my dad saying that he had been sent out on a death march, but was liberated. I don't think I understood the gravity of that until I was much older. According to the Red Cross he was imprisoned on 21st of December 1944 and the last report was made on 15th of May 1945. He was imprisoned for 145 days.
I have always been so drawn to any thing WW2, especially books on the subject. I guess that interest was passed down to my youngest daughter. She has read so many books and articles on WW2, so many in fact that her senior English teacher actually called her out of class and asked if everything was ok. "We need to remember our past, or we're doomed to repeat it" I think about this often, and hope that generations to come will also have an interest in why we are a strong country, why our military personnel are risking their lives still today defending this great country.
I want to thank all those who served, serve, and even will serve, for what they do for our country and its people. We are blessed and we need to remain One Nation Under God!
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TEC5. Charles Anthony Diller Charles's brother, George A. Diller, Jr., was killed on 15th of September 1944 at the Battle of Morotai, and in his obituary it mentioned that his brother Charles was in the service and was on overseas.
The WWII Army Enlistment Records for Shiawassee Co. 1938 - 1946
record that Charles Diller enlisted in 1943 and served in Germany. He was a Prisoner of war at Stalag 9B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
His parents were George A. Diller and Rose M. Fox (a cousin of mine) and he was born in July 1923 in Pewamo, Michigan. The family moved by 1940 to Durand, Shiawassee, Michigan. Charles died in 24 Feb 1992 in Michigan.
My father Marvin Mathew Fox served with the U.S. Army in the Aleutians and in the European Theatre of War.
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