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Area man freed on V-E Day recalls grim POW ordeals
Kenneth Eyler, invited to Fort Myer for the 50th V-E Day commemoration, recounts 144 days in German captivity with the 106th Division. He describes shrapnel wounds, hunger, rats, a nun saving his leg, and liberation on May 8 1945 as British forces arrived, with his brother Glenn a fallen mortar sergeant.
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Kenneth Eyler
White House
Fort Myer
Mr. Eyler
France
Germany
Siegfried Line
Raus
Sgt. Eyler
Eyler
Eyle
Stalag 6C
Cologne
Rhine
Glenn
Ruhr
Glenn Eyler