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Kingsley Soldier(Continued from page one)fcGermans and there was no regular |a1 prison camp so We didn’t get the Bed Cross stuff, but later there was a regular camp and we got the stuff.” Wetrovsky was in Faid pass when Nazi tanks broke through and chased them back into the hills, j “For two days and two nights we received shelling and machine* gun fire,“he recalled, “We tried to get out. We walked all night, and the last night to where trucks were sup* a posed to pick us up, but when he got ^ there only Germans were around and .their armored stuff was coming at us from behind so^we had to surrender.”Transport PlanesThe Americans were searched, loaded on trucks, and sent to an area near Sfax and from there they were taken to Tunis,“We were flown in transport planes from there to Italy and * promptly put to work,” Wetrovsky T recalled. tThen Wetrovsky came down with s jaundice just before he was to have been taken to Germany.After Italy surrendered, German f medical officers went through the 1 hospital and picked out the Ameri- i cans who were in good enough con- 1 dition to be taken to Germany.“I was in good enough shape to go 1 but somehow they missed my ward,” 1 said Wetrovsky. “I think I have an 1 Italian in the hospital to thank for I that.”A few days later, British ambu- | lances came and evacuated the American, and British.89c—^Plymouth Coop. Store.
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Le Mars Semi Weekly Sentinel
Le Mars, Iowa, US
Tue, Nov 16, 1943
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Bonnie M.
WA, USA 11 May 2021
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