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What Prisoner War?/ What make someone to a Prisoner of War?

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What Prisoner War?/ What make someone to a Prisoner of War?

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A prisoner of war (POW) is a members of the armed, who was captured or held by the rivals during or after war.

EX: Suppose that two groups are playing in a game, one team manages to capture a member of the other team. Similar to a "Prisoner of War," that individual is obligated to follow their rules and isn't allowed to play until the game is finished. Reality, during conflicts, opponents may occasionally be captured; these soldiers are referred to as prisoners of war. As the prisoner are unable to leave until the fight is finished.

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A Prisoner of War’s Story” by Stratis Doukas takes place in September 1922 in Smyrna. The story begins with a young Anatolian Greek (Nikolas Kozakoglou), who was captured by the Turkish Army after the Greek-Turkish war.

In Chapter 1, We learn about Nikolas's experience being captured. By discusses the challenging conditions that he and the other prisoners had to face during the exhausting and cruel journey. He is subjected to cruel treatment while being forced to march without much food or water. The Turkish soldiers abuse the prisoners by take away their property and abandon the survivors to the mercy of angry bystanders.

Chapter 2 was significantly different from that of the previous chapter because the theme of escape and discovery of a familiar landscape. In this chapter, describes Nikolas and a companion escaping. When they finally made it back to his hometown, he found it completely destroyed and robbed. They split off to look for jobs and mask their identities in order to survive, thus starts Kozakoglou's difficult path of identity disguise and survival.

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"Ok, let's go." With those three words, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, set in motion Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy. Three Allied Airborne Divisions would spearhead the invasion and it was feared that 50-75 percent of these men would become casualties within the next 24 hours. At around 1900 hours on June 5, 1944, Eisenhower arrived at Greenham Common to visit some of the men whom he knew would never see another dawn.

A rumor was quickly spreading amongst the 101st Airborne Division encampment that the visiting entourage was Betty Grable's. Paratroopers with burnt-cork blackened faces and full battle dress were streaming out of tents and into company streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of the blonde bombshell. Among them was 1st Lt. Wallace Strobel, a platoon leader in E Company, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Meeting Miss Grable would be a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy 22nd birthday for Strobel.

As it so often is in the military, the rumor mill was wrong. Instead of the Hollywood starlet, Strobel met Eisenhower, and the photograph snapped of their meeting has become one of the most iconic wartime images of the famous general. Strobel is easily distinguished in the photograph by the cardboard sign around his neck that designated him jump-master aboard "Chalk 23."

General Eisenhower asked Strobel where he was from. When Strobel said "Michigan," Ike steered the conversation towards fishing. Then he asked the young officer if he felt properly briefed and prepared for the upcoming operation. "Yes, Sir," said Strobel. Eisenhower wished him luck and with that, moved on.

A few hours later, Strobel was cutting himself out of his parachute harness after landing in a tree several miles from his designated drop zone in Normandy. Over the next few weeks, with more pressing matters at hand, Strobel forgot all about meeting Eisenhower. It wasn't until Strobel was in a rear area, perusing the pages of a crinkled copy of Time magazine, when he saw the photo and remembered. It was a grainy image, but Strobel was certain he was in it because he recognized the cardboard "23" he wore around his neck on the eve of the invasion.

Strobel soldiered on, participating in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. He survived the war, and in 1952 briefly met Ike again during his presidential campaign. Until his death at the age of 77 in 1999, Strobel regularly received telephone calls and mail regarding the famous photograph.

Several years ago, Strobel's M1911A1 .45 caliber pistol and a haul of German pistols he captured were donated to The National WWII Museum by his son. Unfortunately, there was no documentation on the provenance of the artifacts other than that Strobel returned home with them after the war. The exact when, where, and how he acquired them may be lost to history. However, I do have a theory of when, where, and from whom Strobel may have captured the pistols.

The M1911A1 is USGI issue, and the holster looks like it may have been rigger-modified by the addition of a "lift the dot" closure on the flap. The modification would have been an added security measure to secure the pistol during the violent opening shock of a parachute jump. Also, as an officer, Strobel was definitely authorized a sidearm, and while not pictured on his person in the famous photograph, it is presumably one of the weapons he jumped into Normandy with.

The trio of German firearms consists of a P08 Luger (every GI wanted a Luger), a Walther P38, often referred to by GIs as, "one of those new Lugers," and a Czechoslovakian CZ27 made under Nazi occupation. Germans were pretty liberal with the issue of pistols compared to the US Military, and these three pieces were fairly common sidearms amongst the German ranks. Even the lesser known CZ27 was produced in numbers greater than half a million during World War II. The details I find most intriguing, though, are the accompanying brown leather holsters with each of them.

The German Army and the Waffen SS generally issued black leather goods, whereas the Luftwaffe issued brown. Of course, there are always exceptions.The Germans were losing the war, and whatever gear was available was often the gear issued to a soldier, regardless of branch of service.

But just to play devil's advocate here, German Paratroopers were part of the Luftwaffe, and without a doubt some of the best soldiers the US Army ever faced. In Normandy, the 101st Airborne Division fought two battalions of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment during the Battle of Carentan, on June 11-12, 1944. This could be the place where Strobel picked up one or more of these pieces.

I believe another clue that points in this direction is the fact that pistols are fairly small, and easy to haul around in a pack. A frontline soldier living out of his Musette Bag isn't likely going to try and stuff a captured German paratrooper helmet into it. It's just too big and takes up too much space. Also, Normandy was the 101st Airborne Division's combat debut, and a shiny war trophy was a big deal to the rookie paratroops.

Another documented meeting of the 502nd PIR and German Paratroopers occurred in Holland during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.Then the Screaming Eagles met their German counterparts in battle again in December 1944 during the siege of Bastogne. There, the 101st Airborne Division clashed with elements of the 5th Fallschirmjäger Division that was attached to 5th Panzer Army.

Sure, Strobel could have certainly picked up these pieces anywhere, and he could've taken them off of any run-of-the-mill German soldier. But when you consider Strobel's proximity, and the GI sentiment that Fallschirmjägers were Hitler's toughest soldiers, it isn't too preposterous to imagine the most likely scenario.I think the most plausible location where Strobel may have acquired them is Carentan, considering the length of engagement, eagerness to snag a souvenir, and the fact that the 101st captured the town. Unfortunately, I guess no one will ever know for sure. But these are probably only questions that keep curators up at night, anyway.

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Spoils of War: The Wallace C. Strobel Collection | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

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A collection of German pistols captured by a paratrooper featured in one of the most iconic photographs of World War II.

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Photograph of tired soldiers sleeping in a field at Camp Barkeley.

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What Were The Actual Odds Of Dying In WW1?

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History Step into the shoes of the British Tommy and examine the stats that determined his chances of life or death. We've all heard the numbers: hundreds of thousands of casualties for every major battle, over a million on the Somme alone, and close to 10 million servicemen killed overall.

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1) What would be the "crazy" thing you do in order survive?

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“seven days went by like this. Those of us who had money drank water. The other drank their own piss.” - Page 5

This quote expresses to the reader the prisoners suffering and brutality they had to endured.

“When we met in the morning we broke down and cried. We had counted on finding at least something left behind by our people in the village.” - Page 13

This quotes meant the strength of being able to go home with love ones.

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Loukis Laras by Dimitrios Vikelas

I chose this because both authors were using personal experience to have a connection with the reader. By using Greek history to highlight their experience during a time of pain and transformation