227935 Wallace Houghtaling United States Army My grandfather was Wallace Houghtaling. I've known for a number of years that he was a prisoner of war during WWII and that he escaped. I was visiting my mother today to discuss our family's genealogy and got talking about her father. She then mentioned his bible that a family friend (a garbageman) found at the dump. My guess is that his second wife threw it away after he died (I won't go there). In it he wrote what I believe to be his serial number. He also had written Stalag IV B 313430 (a serial number they gave him there?).
My mother told me - which I didn't know - he was scheduled to be shot on 13th April 1943 or 1944 along with several others. He wrote the names of those he escaped with in the bible:
Arthur C Peifer of Bloomington, IL; James Matilinos of Lowell, MA; Charles Bundy of Hina (?) KY; John D. Knappenburgh of Charleoi (?) PA.
Does anybody have any information on the above number? Does anyone know about the escape or these escapees?
There was another escapee named Clarance A Sterner from Monessen, PA.
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