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E & E Reports
21 August 1944
HQ ETO P/W and X Detachment
Military Intelligence Service
Frank M. 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
women 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 joined the army.
He was held as a POW until he was released from Stalag 221. He was
in Hammond
General Hospital, Modesto CA from October 1944 recovering from his wound
until his discharge from the Army in May 1945
Frank died on July
15, 1986 in Newnan. GA. |
