Virginia POW Camps in World War II - Coker; Wetzel, Jason
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"During World War II, Virginians watched as German and Italian prisoners invaded the Old Dominion. At least seventeen thousand Germans and countless Italians lived in more than twenty camps across the state and worked on five military installations. Farmers hired POWs to pick apples. Fertilizer companies, lumberyards and hospitals hired them. At first a phenomenon of war in Virginia's backyard, these former enemy combatants became familiar to many--often developing a rapport with their employers. Historians Kathryn Coker and Jason Wetzel take you on a tour of the camps, the daily lives of the…mehr

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"During World War II, Virginians watched as German and Italian prisoners invaded the Old Dominion. At least seventeen thousand Germans and countless Italians lived in more than twenty camps across the state and worked on five military installations. Farmers hired POWs to pick apples. Fertilizer companies, lumberyards and hospitals hired them. At first a phenomenon of war in Virginia's backyard, these former enemy combatants became familiar to many--often developing a rapport with their employers. Historians Kathryn Coker and Jason Wetzel take you on a tour of the camps, the daily lives of the POWs and the enduring effect they had on the Mother of States." -- Page 4 of cover.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Kathryn Roe Coker received a doctorate in history from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Coker served for thirty years as a historian for the Department of the Army (DA). Her interest in World War II prisoners of war (POWs) began at Fort Gordon, a POW base camp. She retired in 2015 from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and now resides in Richmond, Virginia. Jason Wetzel has an MA in education and history from Georgia State University. The bulk of his working life was in telecommunications, with side forays as a high school teacher and a Department of the Army historian.