Duchess of Windsor
Shares Space with Hermann Goering and the 508th
The Duchess of Winsor's jewels didn't
all belong to her. according to cafe society gossip here.
Quite a few were "on approval .. Another interesting theory about the Goering suicide
is that the poison capsule was dropped into his mouth by one of the
men summoned by his guard; that Goering was faking illness to get
this man into his cell, by a prearranged plot ..
Local military men men wonder why the 508th Parachute
regiment, which fought in Africa, Sicily, Italy and Europe and is
one of the most decorated units in the service, was relieved of its
assignment last week as honor guard at U.S. Army headquarters in
Frankfurt, without publicity and without advance notice that the
unit was coming home.
[The Evening Independent, Massillon, OH, Wednesday,
October 23, 1946,· Page 4] BUT THE NEWS WAS ANNOUNCED FOUR
MONTHS EARLIER!
Troops To Return
FRANKFURT (UPI) --- U.S. headquarters announced Saturday that the
508th infantry regiment would return to the United States as a unit
about Oct. 10 in conformity with the routine long-term plan to
reduce the number of troops in the theatre.
[The Akron Beacon journal, Akron, OH, Sunday,
October 6, 1946,· Page 7] |
Pvt Joe Prince Escaped Ahead Of Yanks Entering Germany Special to The Courier-Times-Telegraph
San Antonio, Nov. 24. As Pvt Joe Prince, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Brogan of Tyler, came into Brooke General Hospital here
for a physical checkup, one of the first men he met was Pfc. W. A. Sparks of Bloomington, Ind., with whom he was confined for long, arduous months in a German prison camp.
Prince had escaped from the camp where they were held several months before other prisoners at the camp were liberated by advancing Americans. As a result neither Prince nor Sparks knew what had happened to the other until they were assigned to the same ward at the general hospital here for medical treatment.
Was Thought Dead "I supposed Joe had been killed," said Sparks. "He had attempted to escape at least ten times without success." Both men were with the 82nd Airborne Division, members of the 507th and 508th Parachute Infantry regiments. Both were in advance elements of the D-day invasion of Normandy. Sparks was captured seven days later; Prince was taken prisoner on D-day
plus 20 after being wounded by shrapnel. Both were sent to Stalag 4F at Mulda, Germany, and interned there for ten months. Prince's eleventh attempt at escape was successful. Seven men
tried; two got away alive. The paratrooper was one of them. "We mingled with evacuating civilians until we crossed the border
Into Czechoslovakia ... about 60 kilometers from Mulda, I think," recalled Prince. There the paratrooper
joined the Czech guerrillas and fought with them until the fall of Germany. Sparks and the other Inmates of Stalag 4F were liberated by advancing American armies and later evacuated to the
states. Back With Yanks When Prince, with one of Tito's bands, heard of the fall of Germany he took off immediately to rejoin his countrymen. "Let's say I
appropriated' an American car driven by a German, and drove to the
front lines of the 10th Armored Division in Germany. From then on everything was OK." Everything is still 'OK.' Prince has been dismissed from the hospital and Sparks will be out shortly. Both men are eligible for discharge and will be released from the Army within the next few weeks.
[The Tyler Courier-Times, Tyler, TX, 25 Nov 1945, Sun, Page 15] |