225414 Pte. Vincent Benedict United States Army from:Bryn Mawr, PA He was captured by Nazi troops in the Battle of the Bulge and endured four months as a prisoner of war.
He was drafted into the Army in 1944. That year, he was serving in the Ardennes just before Christmas when he and about 100 others were captured by German soldiers while distributing ammunition.
He spent the remainder of the European war in three prison camps. During that time he developed pneumonia and lost 40 pounds. He said the food was atrocious, noting that the prisoners were given only boiled grass, dirt and roots to eat.
The last thing he remembered when he was captured was a German officer saying to him in French "For you, the war is over". He was liberated on 26th April 1945.
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