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Eugene Fredrick Pilbean
US Army
from:Illinois
My great uncle Fred Pilbean was captured in France. Imprisoned at Stalag 5A in Southern Germany, Bavaria area. I don't know a lot about him other than in my early childhood. He was a broken man, a chronic alcoholic. But he was also calm and I loved him. He was always pleasant. He lived very poor and died in his 60s I believe back in the 1980s. While people do remember him as a broken man, I remember him as a veteran who endured possibly unimaginable situations and therefore could not judge him on his alcoholism. He never talked about the war, being a prisoner, and we don't even know what medals he may have been awarded.