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Attack Of Jaundice Helps Kingsley f Soldier Escape Longer ImprisonmentiJoa WejtrovskyTells Experience As Nazi CaptiveGordon Gammack, staff writer for the Dos Moines Register, in the issue of November 13, has a graphic description of the experiences of Joseph Wetrovsky, a young soldier from Kingsley. Writing at the Fifth Army Front in Italy, the correspondent says in part:“Joseph Wetrovsky, 28-year-oldprivate, first class, who left his farm near Kingsley, to go to war, feels kindly toward yellow jaundice these da vs.If he hadn’t caught the disease he’d be a prisoner of war in the German rcich today, but he did catch it and he’s back with the troops at the front working in the kitchens which send food to the boys in the foxholes.Private Wetrovsky was captured by the Nazis in Tunisia at Faid pass. He got jaundice and was taken to anItalian hospital and after Italy gotcut of the war, the Iowan got hisfreedom.A Nazi sergeant and guard at the prison camp told him the war would last three years. Then the German went home on a furlough and when he came back he said to Wetrovsky, “The war won’t last three monthslonger, I was home for 10 days and I spent nine of them in air raid shelters.”Chance of VictoryMost of the Germans Wetrovsky was with realize the German chances for victory are now hopeless.While he was in the hospital he said Allied planes bombed the daylights out of military installationswhich were on all sides of the hospital.“German officers talked with our fliers in the hospital and asked them how they could be so accurate with their bombing,” Wetrovsky related. “The American officers told them that that was for them to find out. The Germans call our Flying Fortresses Flying Ghosts and Fly in? Panzers.The food was meager. For breakfast the prisoners had bread—one loaf for each eight men and a cup of coffee, for the noon meal they had a sort of vegetable soup which had rUttle meat in it occasionally, but us-uaPy was “awfully thin” At night they had another ration of bread and a cup of tea.“What saved us was the food from the Red Cross which we got after we were sent to Italy” said Wetrovsky. “At first we just did work for the (See Kingsley Soldier, Page Four)
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Le Mars Semi Weekly Sentinel
Le Mars, Iowa, US
Tue, Nov 16, 1943
Page 3
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Bonnie M.
WA, USA 11 May 2021
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