So back to the numbering scheme. It would make sense if a Camp had say a range of numbers like 13,000 to 14,000 that they could use. But those early men you found were # 11,000 and I can not imagine that they had over 2,000 more POW's that early on get taken all the way to Siegburg. But, ...
Will be interesting to see numbers of other prisoners in other Camps. I wonder if that AF gentleman that was in the plane with Dryden would know his number. And also a Medic's story that I unearthed and talked to the gentleman in Massachusetts. Actually I know some other Ex POW's and could pursue this numbering system at some future time and maybe get lucky so we could figure it out. I will put it in my "To Do" list.
Now back to the 309th Regiment - I had planned to ask the lady I was calling about the AAR (After Action Reports) if there was a central source or person where I could put in a request to learn more about the liberators and the Medical Detachment and their reports. Maybe I could really get lucky and someone would be alive. So that too is on my list.
However, last night at Mom's, the Care Giver, who knows of my WW2 interests showed me a book she had that was from 1944 -1945 and was printed by Eukerdruck K.-G. Marburg (Lahn), Germany. It was kind of like an address book (no stories on what they did during the War) on the 309th Regiment, Men of Diehard, and John H. Ondrick was the Col, Inf. Cmd. in the Care Givers past, she knew some families that were part of this outift. Pretty strange! So I will pursue this desire to learn more about the Waldbrol liberators through that source as well.
More to follow,
Jean J