245529 St.Sgt. Willis Earl Bain United States Army 117th Infantry Regiment from:Fayetteville, Tenn. My stepfather, Willis Bain served with 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division (Old Hickory) and was captured on 7th of August 1944 at the Battle of Mortain protecting Hill 314.
He was forced to march a long way before being herded onto boxcars and sent nearly 900 miles to Stalag III-C arriving in September 1944. He escaped with two other men. (I do not know the names of the men.) They went south through the terrible snow over the Alps and along the Adriatic Sea of Italy arriving in Naples, Italy in late March 1945.
He sailed on the Mariposa and arrived in Boston, Mass. on 8th of April 1945. I would like to know the names of the men in his barracks and/or the names of the two men escaped with on the night of New Year's 1944/45.
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