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E & E Reports
21 August 1944
HQ ETO P/W and X Detachment
Military Intelligence Service
Frank W. Ramirez |
I was captured on 6 June while I
was giving aid to one of our men who had broken his leg. All of my
possessions were taken from me. and after I had been taken up into the
line to be questioned by an officer who seemed to know more about me
than i did myself, I was marched to a collecting point ten miles in the
rear. The next day while we were being moved from here in trucks
we were strafed by Allied planes. I was hit in the arm, but I made
a break from the column and ran about two miles. Then my arm was
bleeding so badly that I entered the first house that I saw. The
woman there bandaged my arm; but while they were doing so the man went
out and returned with a German sergeant who was guarding an American
lieutenant. The sergeant took us to an enclosure from which on 12
June we were moved to the hospital in Rennes.
JUMPMASTER NOTES: Pvt Ramirez was a native of Mexico and had not
yet become a U.S. citizen when he jo8ined the army. He was held as
a POW until 1945 when he was released from an unknown camp.
Frank died on July
15, 1986 in Newnan. GA. |
