Americans Hidden by Pope in Vatican City During War
Two American airmen Sgt Broadniak of New Jersey and Sgt Bernard Scalisi of New Orleans were sheltered by Pope Pius XII in Vatican City with 17 allied prisoners before being released as the 5th Army entered Rome. They had been shot down near Viterbo three months earlier and evaded German guards to reach the Holy See. The group included 11 Britishmen, two Canadians, two Poles, one New Zealander and one Australian. Lt Paul Freyburg, son of a New Zealand general, was among them. Four of the Holy See prisoners secured exchange with Italian captives.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
Eternal City
Sgt
Anthony
SSSSS
Vatican
Brodniak
New Jersey
Bernard Scalisi
New Orleans
Viterbo
Rome
Vatican J City
Paul Freyburg
Bernard Freyburg
New Zealand
Holy See
Vatican Watches and Prisoner Aid Across War Zones
The Holy See coordinated prisoner exchanges and aid across Italy the Far East Hongkong Malay Greece Turkey and Syria with gifts and funds from Vatican representatives. Archbishops visited camps in Tokyo Berne and the Near East while gifts reached internees in Hongkong Malta and England.
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Vatican City
Freyburg
Vatican
Castel Gandolfo
Albert Penny
Italy
Far East
Hongkong
Greece
Turkey
Syria
Holy See
Tokyo
Marella
Germany
Switzerland
Berne
England
Malta
Brogongini Buca
Quirinal
Gustavo Testa
Near East
Fish Military
Jerusalem
Holy Sepulcher
Testa
Cassino
Frascati
War correspondents barely escape German shelling in France
Six to eight correspondents and officers flee a burning house in Caen after a German 88mm shell hits the building at 11 45 am. Captain Wilson and others assist as flames trap occupants, with several wounded and a narrow balcony escape enabling testimony of the bombing.
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Joseph Willicombe, Jr
France
Charley Limeh
Reuter's
Lionel Stapire
Wnewspaper Alliance
Ross Monroe
Canadian Press
Lynch
Mat Halton
Canadien Broadcasting Co
Ralph Jen
Toronto Globe
Capts
Jack Wilson
Jack Golding
Bill Cornforth
Marcelle Ouinet
Canadian Broadcasting Co
Bill Stewart
The
Bill Clary
United Press
Elgin Monk
Monk
Sgt
Alson
Montreal
Grayston
Cornforth
Dagh
Caen
Shapiro
Capt
Wilson
Munro
Oaep
Golding
Canadian officers photographed evacuation during 30 minute shelling
The account lists civilian and military evacuees including Lynch Golding Trenches Allen Driver Farrow Buck Roos Knobby Clark and Bill Grant as shells rained for 30 minutes. Lt Donald Grant and Lt Frank Duberville documented the event while warning the occupants.
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Halton
Allen
Dave Farrow
North Bay
Ont
Set
Buck Roos
Knobby Clark
Bill Grant
Winnipeg
Donald Grant
Windsor
Orit
Frank Dubervill
Ottawa
Scouts Compete for Lethal Bullet Trophy
In Muskogee Oklahoma scouts compete for a merit prize a bullet from a marine s 45 caliber automatic used in a Guadalcanal hand to hand incident A former scout Bill Baker explains he dug the bullet from a tree after it pierced a Jap during the fight The bullet is engraved with V three dots and a dash and serves as a neckerchief slide prize
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Muskogee
Okla
Guadalcanal
Bill Baker
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