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Jackie Sharp Sheflin
3/3/2007 4:52:32 AM | I am wondering where I should write to find out about my Dad's crew when they were shot down and became POW's.
There must be records of our POW's during the time they were in prison of war camps and his 201 file does not have this information as I have looked through it and the files my father kept.
Your help would be appreciated.
Jackie
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Paul Bellamy
3/3/2007 9:10:19 AM | Here's the search page for the WWII POW Records at NARA: LINK
I did a quick search for Sharp, Air Corps and 401st and got one result:
32141962 Technical Sergeant SHARP, JACK T. of New York.
Date of POW Report: 19/7/44
Camp: Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11
If this is your father, the full file is HERE.
Hope that helps,
Paul
Paul Bellamy
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Jackie Sharp Sheflin
3/3/2007 9:27:48 AM | Paul,
Thank you so much for the information. This is indeed my Dad. I will go to look at this link as soon as I can.
I have tried to navigate the NARA site , but have found it so confusing that I gave up.
Can't figure out why I find the government so confusing!
Jackie
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Paul Bellamy
3/3/2007 9:32:33 AM | No problem Jackie,
The hardes part of using the NARA site is actually getting to the proper search functions, rather than their "standard settings". 😉
While I was on the site, I pulled up your Dad's enlistment file for you too. HERE.
All the best,
Paul
Paul Bellamy
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Jackie Sharp Sheflin
3/3/2007 9:49:32 AM | Paul,
I went to the links and found the information, but I have another question, Do you know how you get copies of any of the POW information? I did not see a way to do that as the info appears to be just in a form.
Also I tried looking up photos in the NARA a long time ago and once again I found the site so confusing, I did not find anything. Is there a way to get copies of the information and photos if they exist?
Jackie
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Paul Bellamy
3/3/2007 10:06:40 AM | It seems the Enlistment and POW files are taken from microfilmed photographs of the original paper punchcard files, so what you see on the screen is all there is in each file.
Hard Copies of service records etc can be obtained, seemingly free, by next of kin via http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/.
Information on how to do this is at http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/index.html.
Getting copies of photographs held by NARA is a little trickier...... and costlier it would seem. I'll have a look round to see if I can find the link to the procedures, it's here somewhere.
All the best,
Paul
Paul Bellamy
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Jackie Sharp Sheflin
3/10/2007 7:39:28 AM | Paul,
I went to the site and looked at the information you had sent about requesting records.
I did request his records almost 2 years ago and I did receive what they call his '201' file.
Sadly...none of the papers included had anything to do with his POW information. In my mind and in my heart, I know there are records of his time as a POW, but as of this day I have been unable to find them.
If you should run accross any other way to get them, please let me know. I have also still been unable to find a way to get copies of government photos which I am also sure must exist.
Jackie
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Paul Bellamy
3/10/2007 9:31:26 AM | There is another source of information relating to US POWs in Stalag Luft III, a book called "Behind the Wire, Stalag Luft III, South Compound." by Arnold A. Wright.
The book is a compilation of ledgers on all US arrivals at the camp by Lt. Ewell R McCright, who arrived there in early 1943, and cover some 2,100 names.
It seems to cover;
Name
Rank
Serial number
Aircraft type
When & where shot down
When & where captured
Dates in Stalag
etc.
The book was a limited edition of 1000 copies, but they seem to turn up on eBay regularly.. one there currently is $125, but I would assume some are in libraries in the US, somewhere.
All the best,
Paul
Paul Bellamy
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eddie robertson
4/14/2007 11:01:17 PM | thinking outside the box you might go to B24.net . on the left side of page
check stalag III and surf there info. I found my father-in law's barricks
roster of the 500 men that was in his barricks in stalag 17b, accounts of the march across Austria, pictures and other accounts of daily life and hardships at this site .
eddie robertson
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