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Pvt. Boyd Eugine "Smokey" Snodgrass
United States Army
from:Grand Island, NE
My father, Private First Class, Boyd Snodgrass, was captured in France. Unfortunately, a building in Dallas, Texas burned down a few decades ago and most of the information about my father's capture and de-briefing were destroyed when the building burned to the ground. I know that he was shot and captured. Do not know for exactly how long he was a POW, but it was for more than a year.
My Father would never talk about his experience. Never. He met with other soldiers every few years in alternate cities and always travelled by himself. I assumed these other men were in the same camp with my father. His silence, which I completely understand, led me to do an American History minor in college, with a close and passionate focus on WWII. I was told by the Veterans of Foreign Wars office that the camp my Father was in was liberated by the Russians.
