AIRMEN PRISONERS
LARGE CAMP IN GERMANY. Up to April of this year members of the R.A.F. who became prisoners of war were placed by their German captors in the most convenient camp, but now, according to a letter re- I ceived in New Zealand from Pilot Officer I. J. Shaw, the flying men have been segregated to a camp of their own, known as Luft III. "It is a much better camp than the last one (Stalag VIII B), and we are all glad to be here," he writes. "There are Red Cross parcels here, and we are much better off for food than we have been for the last four months. . . It is not so very far from the old camp, but the train was very j|low, and we were in it 24 hours and arrived very tired and dirty. The camp is quite close to a fairly large town, but, at the same time, we are in a clearing in a wood. German cities seem to stop very suddenly, then the country begins. They do not straggle out as do our cities. This is apparently going to be a cem tral air force camp. There were about 6000 R.A.F. boys here when we arrived."
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 253, 27 October 1942, Page 3
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