Stalag IX-B
German Prisoner of War Camp
Bad Orb, Germany
Photos

7A 6308/ETO HQ 45  30179  4 APR
CREDIT...U S ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
PHOTOS - T/5 J A BOWEN 163

ON APRIL 2ND, A TASK FORCE OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY RAIDED ENEMY HELD TERRITORY TO RELEASE 6,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS, 3,364 OF WHICH WERE AMERICANS FROM GERMAN PRISON.

CAMP STALAG IX-B, AT BAD ORB, GERMANY.  HERE THIS GROUP OF MEN TO KEEP UP THE MORALE, FORMED A CLUB, REFERRING TI THEM AS THE "CEREAL AND MARMALADE CLUB". THEY ARE ALL FORM THE 28TH INFANTRY DIVISION, AND XXXXX IN AMERICA ARE IN OR NEAR PHILADELPHIA PA.  ALL THE PRISONERS WERE INCREDIBLY ILL-FED AND THIS GROUP POOLED THEIR FOOD SO THAT ANY MEMBER WHO WAS EXTREMELY WEAK RECEIVED MORE FOOD THAT DAY  (D)

44TH INF DIV, & 106 CAV XXXXX
BAD-ORB, GERMANY.  RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
 

7A-6239/ETO HQ 45  30088  3 APR
Credit...U S Army Signal Corps
Photog .. T/5 Louis Weintraub..163

Paris Dupe
Liberated Yanks carry sloup barrel for the last time past truck load of rations waiting to be unloaded in Stalag IX-B prison at Bad-Orb, Germany.  Task Force of Cavalry and Infantry drove into German territory, captured the prison, and liberated 6000 Allied P.W.'s 3364 of whom were Americans.

44th Inf Div, 106th Cav Cp 401 Corps
7A-Bad-Orb, Germany

Aerial view of Stalag IX-B,
Bad Orb, Germany

7A-6283/ETO HQ 45  30173  4 APR
CREDIT .. U S ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
PHOTOG - T/5 L WEINTRAUB 163

ON APRIL 2ND, A TASK FORCE OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY RAIDED ENEMY HELD TERRITORY TO RELEASE 6,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS, 3,364 OF WHICH WERE AMERICANS, FROM PRISON CAMP STALAG XI-B, AT BAD-ORB, GERMANY.  HERE LIBERATED AMERICANS SITTING ON SIDE THEIR BARRACKS, EAT THEIR FIRST MEAN OF "C" RATIONS SINCE DECEMBER 15TH.  NOTE THE CROSSES OF THEIR BUDDIES IN BACKGROUND.  THESE MEN DIED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO KEEP THEM ALIVE LONG ENOUGH FOR LIBERATION.34 DIED SINCE DECEMBER  25TH 1944

44TH  INF DIV & 106TH CAV GR XV CORPS, 7A
BAD-ORB, GERMANY

CREDIT...U S ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
PHOTOG .. T/5 J A BOWEN 163

ON APRIL 2ND, A TASK FORCE OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY RAIDED ENEMY HELD TERRITORY TO RELEASE 6,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS, 3,364 OF WHICH WERE AMERICANS, FROM GERMAN PRISON CAMP STALAG IX-B, AT BAD-ORB, GERMANY.   HERE 4 ENGLISHMEN CAPTURED IN AFRICA TRY TO REGAIN SOME STRENGTH WITH THEIR G.I. FOOD WHILE AWAITING EVACUATION.  THEY SLEPT ON THE FLOOR (SHOWN HERE) DURING THEIR STAY IN THIS PRISON.

44TH  INF DIV & 106TH CAV GR XV CORPS, 7A
BAD-ORB, GERMANY

7A-6283/ETO HQ 45  30173  4 APR
CREDIT .. U S ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
PHOTOG - T/5 L WEINTRAUB

PARIS DUPE
YANK PRISONERS RESCUED !  AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR SHOW THEIR HAPPINESS AT BEING RESCUED FRO THEIR GERMAN PRISON.  CAVALRY AND INFANTRY OF THE SEVENTH ARMY THRUST INTO ENEMY TERRITORY TO BREAK INTO A GERMAN PRISON CAM AT BAD-ORB, GERMANY, AND RESCUED 3364 YANKS WHO WERE AMONG 6000 ALLIED SOLDIERS RELEASED.

44TH  INF DIV & 106TH CAV GR XV CORPS, 7A
BAD-ORB, GERMANY

7A-6240/ETO HQ 45  30090  3 APR 45
CREDIT .. U S ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
PHOTOG - T/5 L WEINTRAUB

Prison Camp in Germany liberated by 7th Army troops.  6,000 Allied and American prisoners who were fed a slice of bread and soup a day with occasionally horse meat, scraped the soup barrel to get a little extra food as they are doing in this picture.  It was nothing unusual to them who lived through this hell.

44TH  INF DIV & 106TH CAV GR XV CORPS, 7A
BAD-ORB, GERMANY

7A 6243/ETO HQ 45  30091
Credit ... U S Army Signal Corps
Photog ... T/5 Louis Weintraub 163

Captured during Ardennes push, Chaplin 1st Lt. Edw. J. Hurley, of 19687 Cameron Street, Detroit, Mich., Pastor of St. Rita's Church, refused to leave Nazi prison camp when offered the opportunity, and stayed with men until camp was liberated by units of 7th Army.  At the camp in Bad-Orb, the Chaplain hands food out to prisoners after it was trucked to camp.  (Left) Pvt. Peter A. Piantidos, of 91 Elm St., Lawrence, Mass., and (Right) Pfc. Nicholas G. Anzano, of 421 Cook Ace., Meriden, Conn.

44TH  INF DIV & 106TH CAV GR XV CORPS, 7A
BAD-ORB, GERMANY

7A 6287/ETO HQ 45  30175 4 Apr
Credit ... U S Army Signal Corps
Photog ... T/5 Louis Weintraub 163

ON APRIL 2ND, A TASK FORCE OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY RAIDED ENEMY HELD TERRITORY TO RELEASE 6,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS, 3,364 OF WHICH WERE AMERICANS, FROM GERMAN PRISON CAMP STALAG IX-B, AT BAD-ORB, GERMANY.   Here American soldiers getting bread, C Rations and butter.

44TH  INF DIV & 106TH CAV GR XV CORPS, 7A
BAD-ORB, GERMANY

7A 6290/ETO HQ 45  30176  4 Apr
Credit ... U S Army Signal Corps
Photog ... T/5 Louis Weintraub 163

ON APRIL 2ND, A TASK FORCE OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY RAIDED ENEMY HELD TERRITORY TO RELEASE 6,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS, 3,364 OF WHICH WERE AMERICANS, FROM GERMAN PRISON CAMP STALAG IX-B, AT BAD-ORB, GERMANY.

Here reenacting the liberation of XXX elements of 2nd Battalion, 114th Infantry Regiment, 44th Division, XXX at the prison.  Lt Col Walter D. PeoterXX. New Brunswick, N. J., Regimental Commander in front of prison camp officials, reenacting surrender of German Commandant and Staph.

BND-BN, 114th Regt, 44th Div., XV Corps.
Bad-Orb, Germany

Captured during the Ardennes push, Chaplain 1st Lt. Edward J. Hurley of Detroit, Michigan, refused to leave Nazi prison camp when offered the opportunity and stayed with the men until the camp was liberated by units of 7th Army.  At this camp in Bad-Orb, the Chaplain hands food out to prisoners after it was trucked to camp by the liberating Army.

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