239699 Pte. Herman Reeves "Bud" Porter United States Army Field Artillery from:Dyer, Arkansas, USA Herman Porter was my great-uncle. I heard as a child that he had been a prisoner of war in Germany during WWII. My grandmother told me that Uncle Bud had come back from the war in bad health, thin and with feet that had frozen, and had a hard time walking at first. She told me that he had been forced to work in a mine (possibly a coal or salt mine?). She also said he never talked about it. I looked up his military records and found out that he was at Stalag IV-B, Sachsen 51 13 at Muhlberg, Germany. Through your website I was able to find out the information about the POW camp. He is buried in the Fort Smith, Arkansas Veterans Cemetery and his tombstone has Prisoner of War on it.
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