It is Saturday morning and I could hardly wait to go back to looking at the information that Larry sent me!
I don't know what to say - how many more positive expletives exist to describe Larry and what he has done and is doing! This is beyond a Miracle!
I am at the moment pretty emotional as I think of these 5 men that Larry on his own decided to learn more about. They are Leland Butler, George E Campbell, John J Culik Jr., Guy W. Wade, and Roy L. Westgate, Jr.
These men have been gone so long and none of us know anything about them and the supreme sacrifice that they had to make.
Christoph and I know of 4 of these men - because they were buried at the Cemetery at the Prison Camp/Hospital/Abbey at Siegburg. We know that because of earlier information that Christoph was able to track down. Christoph located a Mr. Stolz who prior to his becoming unreachable because of health issues, and Mr. Stolz telling me that, sent me a list of some men that were buried in the little Cemetery and a map (not my Dad's) and some other things. (In addition he got me in touch with a translator for that brief trip to visit the Nun because Christoph was not going to be in Germany at that time.).
Mr. Stolz had this very unusual information because his passion had been locating planes, or remains of them, and tracking down information on downed Airmen. One of which, Philip C. Dryden, was buried there at Siegburg by my Dad.
The map and information my Dad supplied to the Allieds after his escape/leaving Siegburg - is still something I have not unearthed.
So from Stolz's list I have tried to locate information on the deceased gentlemen. It has been a slow and frustrating journey on so many of them - and I have more to still research. The Archive folks at St. Louis have been wonderful but if there are no records there then they can not do any more. Well Larry did the 'More' on the 5 mentioned men.
I am going to sign off, so I do not lose this as I so often do, and start another post.
Jean