The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1945 Page: 3 of 8
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Albany, Texan, Thursday Jvly If), I9lr>
THE ALBANY NEWS
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Johnnie Waters In Prison Camp I Months
(Continued from Vugr I)
hy prisoner- up front thut the ' could send n .short wnvi> broadcast
Will II III' Wll I'llpttl I t'll
His ant i I auk rompn ny, contiri t-
etl (< tl '' M1 Hth Hcpimcnt of tlic
80tli, wii in action near Nancj
when the Krnut mounted a coun-
ter-attack of i on iilcnilile .foli c.
The (icrniiin-i cut in tank , follow
eit by (icrmany infantry, and tlii'. c
succeeded in enveloping .lohnnie'
unit.
"We were given orders to tick
to our KUtiu," lie relates, and my
buddy and I stayed with ours, giv-
ing the (ierinans everything we
had. We shot up all our ammun-
ition, and were -urrounded, and
under intense H8min fire from the
German tank-, and from rifle and
machine jru 11 fire from the infan-
try. My buddy was hit, and I
crawled out of my foxhole to irlvt1
him first aid. before I finished, I
was forced back in my hole hy (Ire.
The German . who proved to be SS
troops, came on, and I played dead,
Not daring to breathe and had my
helmet over my face. A German
called to me, and I didn't move,
then he said "Rails!" and I came
out.
"llijrht here I had my experi-
ence with the SS men - the only
rough treatment I received from
the Germans after capture. An SS
kid came at me when I came up
out of tile foxhole, and hit me
across the back with hi rifle He
wan coming at me again, when an
officer stopped him. I have no
doubt he would have killed me
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CHECKED IN 7 DAYS WITH
LIQUID for
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r if lit there, men thoiiirh I had
urremlcred, if the '!■ rman offa • r
hadn't topped him.
"My buddy wasn't able to walk,
and there were a lot of German
infantrymen .vho couldn't walk,
either. Most of them had been
killed hy our f>7 , and there were
three German tank out there
knocked out. I had the satisfac-
tion of knowing my buddy and I
knocked at least one of those tank
out, and got oitr share of the Gei
man infantrymen.
Carrie! Ruddy Though Fire
"I was forced to carry wound-
ed German- hack to a captuicd
American truck, a short di.-taiice
hack," Johnnie continued. "Fi-
nally the officer made a German
help me. After all the German
wounded had been moved, I went
after my buddy, and p eked him
Up and put him aero- in\ html
tier. A . I began going back up
the road toward the truck with
him, American machine gun open
I'd fire. The German took to the
ditches, but forced me to i ontifiin-
to carry my buddy down the mid-
tile of the road with iiiachiiiegun
bullets from our own infantrymen
cutting the air all around lie . M\
build) wa- llit twice a- I t ai r ed
him, 11ut I wa n't touched lion't
let anyone tell you he doesn't get
sea red under the c condition.- and
that wa* one time I really prayed."
Take Money
The German- topped at a house
a short distance in the rear of the
line , and i nt .lohnnie in-ide to
lie interviewed hy a German colon-
el, who spoke Kngli h. Hi wound-
ed buddy was taken on to a ho
pital, and Johlin c doe n't know
what became of him. lie doe n't
know the atldre.-s of hi people, or
he would try to find out.
The (ierin,an < arched .lohnnie,
took hi money, i igarette lighter,
and tried to get hi- ring off of 1 ■
finger, but the r ntr wouldn't come
off. I he colonel looked through
hi. pur.-e, and found .Inhnna '
ter'. , Margai'et' , i>>ctare. and r>
marked, "I'rilla' Yiltlt wfi'V"
I poll be ritold it wa hi i tei,
the i olonel ret urni-il t lie p ctin e to
.lohnnie, who, by t ■ «, y, , . Mieil
to be tin only pri ont r taken up
till then. 1 iter <>ther \mere a•
were brought in and the ."'oiip
walked hack rt0 mile*. lie «a . nt
to Stalag I i \ at I lihei G> r
many, where be -pent probably the
two llio t m: l iable week of 1
life "I thought I *,i going to die
from bungei then , .lohnnie re-
port?. "All we got for two -olid
weeks wa- two howl of very poor
soup a day. No Ijed Cro pack-
age were av ailable for u -, and
the American offii ei in the i amp
wouldn't di\ itle the i v\ ttli u ."
He was then cut to Stalag 7-A at
Moo burg, wheic ta- pent rno.-t of
hi- internment Hen- he worked
at Lnnilshut, which wa ju t -0
minutes ride by train. He worked
in a factory, helped build bomb
shelters, and later helped dig the
wounded arid dead out of the ruins
of l.atidshtit a.fter the American
I! 17- completely leveled the city.
"I Was lucky not to be in the
factory then," Johnnie aid. "'I tie
American hoy- in tho.-e factorie.-
w erc killed by the raid. I lie l!
I 7s completely lc. eleil tlie city. I
aw three bomb make a. d.>• t h t
on a big slielti r, and doubtle , e\
cry German in that huge -hcltci
was killed. We were taken nto
the city after the ricd to help ex
cavate the wounded and dead.
"We got liit In I'll while on
a train, and time of otii hoy were
hurt and a number of the German
guard were killi"!, I • the -:.•!road
\ aid t .Munich w' got a lc 'it n
a bombing from our big bomber ,
and a bunch of l!ii- an pr oni i
were killed within a block fron
where I wa
"Tho e American tin" her- were
over every day, and we got i big
kick out of - ee i ng thi ' I'd po tit
to our 11-17 and l! JI a they
went over, and ay to the guard,
'Prima,' which meat the In- t. I he
gual'd i eplied. ' American - prima.
Got plenty of every thing.'
Trade for (tread
It -eems that l"i ad, . u ' any
k ml at old < oar • I 1;i■ k* In ■ ad
wa ill demand. I : 1 \mei ii in-
traded their lied Cro oap for
bread while they worked n the
town. Thi bread w . concealed
iltldcr their hilt- and nuiggied
hack into camp w et. it
stave of
"On
"while refill nine to aa n from tin
I itv, w ord w .1 p;i I'd h.t k to II
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to my mother iim a Christmas pre-
ent," he stated. "I thought be was
'woofing' but I sent the me-sage.
I was pleased to learn that the
message got through January IK,
wiis picked up by a lady in New
Jersey, and sent to my mother."
"That reminds me, we had a
first place thi Kraut* j lovely Christmas tree in the I'W
camp. We got a tree, took tin foil
from our Red Cro--; packages, and
decorated it. We sang Christmas
carols until I or 2 a. m, and won-
dered where we would be next
Christmas."
The I'W's really liked to see the
American fighters come over, and
their morale was alway- upped af-
ter their visits.
"One day," he said, "a column
of German cavalry, with lots of
horses and equipment, came
though Lands-hut, and we remark
ed that would be a i t tip for our
I'-fils. Well, you know, it wasn't
any time until there were everal
of those babies up there chewing
that column of Krauts to bits. In
the group were three I'-IISs, two I'-
51s and two I' 17 German and
horses were trung up and down
the road for hundreds of yards.
Those fighters really ruined that
German outfit."
Liberated al Memminqton
The prisoner were transferred
to Mcnimington, in south Germany,
is the Allies drove into Germany.
It was at Memmington that his |
group w as liberated w hen the 10th
Armored Division, followed by the |
71h Infantry Division, took the I
place on April 2lith "The Get j
mans were afraid we'd go wild and
they had our ranking officer ask
us to remain calm and not turn
German guards were -parching the
cars for food. I had five loaves of
bread, and practically every man
;ii the car had bread. We began
to look for a place to hide it, and
crammed all we could into the car
-tovc. We then decided that was-
n't a good place, a it would pro-
bably be tin
would look. So we cut the bread
up, put a much t f it in our cloth-
ing at- we could, and then tried to
eat the rest.
"And then," he said, "they
didn't search our car."
Morale of the I'W' was good,
lie report . It had to he good for
the men to keep their wit-. The
Germans' morale dropped as the
Kussian and Western Allies made
their big drive , and the Germans
began to tn friendly I'lopuganda
wa- fed the prisoner-, hilt they had
mean of getting new from reli-
able sources.
PraiNe* Red Crofts
Johnnie, like tin other ex-pris-
otiet . aid t lie lied t 'rn -av ed
their live with then monthly par
eels. Each man received a parcel
once a month. The e were divid-
ed, one parcel to 12 men. The
parcel con i ted of the following:
llox of cracker.-.
1 can of corn beef.
2 calls sardines.
2 can salmon.
can prunes.
package of cigarette
bar oap.
call cuffee.
MADDOX
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BALL scorer WHI
HE PLAYED FOR WI1
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iHiantiti«■ . potato*1 . kraut*
rahniijfr -oup. Four boiled
tor- wrro i !)rd racf man
nijrht.
Grrrtiann Ititler After Raid*
Remini-i i n g of thing that stand
out ii hi s month- of prison,
Johnnie recall- the Genitalis were
very bitter at f r t about the air
raid "The German civilians
threw rock- and brick- at u after
one particularly had raid," he re-
late "The \mei i an airmen
who bailed out were really lucky
to lie caught by nldier or guards,
.i the • tertnan civ in w ere real
ly rough on them." he continued
"While I wa- Working tl 'lie
factory at I and hut, a German of
fiier came to me a tin told mi I
on the Germans. Lour oi five
guard; stayed with ii and surreti
tiered to the American The re t
fled We broke down the wire
and roved about a we wanted to
for two week , eating tliliciou
American army food. We were
thiyi moved to Lellavn- hy plane,
where we hoarded the SS Marine
Angel and arrived in Ito-ton May
20."
I'l'c. Water report to fort Sam
Houston August Mh, when lie will
be reassigned, and expect; to go
to the Pacific to help fini h the
war with tile Japs.
He wears the American MiTcna-
and KTO ribbons, the Infantry-
man's budge, and two tiattte stars.
He has regained some 20 pounds
lo t in prisoner of war camps, and
is enjoying his mother's cooking.
She is Mrs. Lula Waters, and has
a on, I'l'c. Jc e Waters, also an
infantryman, who went through
the tough Philippines campaign.
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sodas.
The pair watched wonderingly,
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I whipped it up to a high froth,
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