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Some of these conversations are ongoing and
some are not. They are posted here in order
that others may see, and hopefully
information can be exchanged to those with
questions they have seeking to locate or get
information on friends of the past. Other
emails are sent to me containing
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Betty Cook - Looking
for Info or Photograph
I am Looking for possible a picture or info
on any one that may have heard of An John W
Page Jr. whom enlisted at CP Forrest
Tennessee on 11/26/1941 he was...
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Linda Cole - Sketch
I am attaching
a sketch of Camp Forrest that was done by a
POW there about 1945. My step-father served
as an interpreter there during the war as he
was born in Germany...
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Jeanie Zalmanek -
Reflections
I believe it was in 1942 that we arrived in
Tullahoma to live. My father was at
northern field as the first temporary
commanding officer until the...
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Sterling
Whalen - Seeking
Information
Message:
Seeking
information from anyone who knew my uncle.
Cpl John M. Hutcheson. Co. M. 131st Infantry
Regiment. 33rd Infantry Division. Camp
Forrest Tn...
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Louis Buzek -
Photograph
Message: I've just begun to write my own
personal memoirs of the time I spent in Camp
Forrest: from October 1942 to February 1946,
and in...
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William Shaw -
Looking
prisoner artist
Message:
My Father was an MP during WW2
at this installation . A prisoner
there drew a beautiful picture of
my Mother while he was there...
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Molly Frasier-
Looking for more information
Message:
Me and a friend
are very curios about learning of camp
Forrest in Tullahoma TN we live in
Manchester and from what little we have read
we would love to read...
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Alton Rogers -
Searching for book
Message: There is a picture of a book "7th
Division in Korea" I received while
with the occupation troops in Korea. I lost
my book...
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Wolfgang Reiszmann
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Photograph
Over the past year or so Wolfgang has sent
me many photographs of Camp Forrest. His
father, Erich Reissmann was a prisoner at
Camp Forrest. Send more Wolfgang!...
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Bob Seymour
- Photographs
Bob submitted these photographs for
publication. Bob has corresponded with me
for the past couple of years... thanks Bob.
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Leo E. Ours Jr. -
Photographs
Photographs
submitted by Leo Ours Jr. I hope to
hear from Leo again. Thanks to Leo and all
others who have written to this site and
submitted information.
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Will Hawkins -
Reflections
We moved to Winchester in early 1941
when my Father was stationed at Camp Forest
as a Capt. I can remember being out with my
Dad...
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Frank Hinchey
- Searching for
information on brother-in-law's father
I came upon your Internet post concerning
your uncle who was in Co. C. 1st Bn 254th
Inf. Reg during World War II. I am helping
my brother-in-law, Dick Flaig of
Cincinnati...
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Randy Houser -
Sharing Information
Camp Forrest was called a POW camp in 1942,
however it was in fact initially an
internment camp for German, Japanese, and
Italian civilian aliens. My German...
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Lloyd Lewis Adams
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Seeking Soldier
My father M/Sgt. Charles J. Adams was a part
of the initial cadre when Camp Forrest was
activated in Feb. 1941, he served as the
Camp Sergeant Major ...
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Mary Ann Potter -
Seeking Information
Wonderful site!!! My father, Sgt. Henry Sikkema, was stationed at Camp
Forrest when it was a POW camp. I was
born in the hospital there on site in April
of 1945...
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Bill & Agnes Jones
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Doing Research
We hope to do a history of the range which
was an annex of Camp Forrest. We know that C
Battery of the 191st trained on this
range...
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Women Veterans Historical Collection Oral
History Project
Dorothy M. Miller
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there, I was sent to Camp
Forest, Tennessee. That's
where I know I spent the
most time, was at Camp
Forest. At Camp Forest,
Tennessee, when we went
there, it was a little
crowded, but it was where
soldiers had lived, and they
converted the barracks for
the women. Only thing they
did, they just changed the
urinal, and they closed the
latrine, is what it was
called...
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Prisoner of War Camp
Camp Forrest officially became a
prisoner of war camp on May
12, 1942. The camp housed
Italian and German POWs.
Prisoners were processed as
laborers at Camp Forrest,
the hospitals and in the
local community on farms.
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World War II Enemy
Alien Control Program
In 1945 the U.S. government
implemented an Intellectual Diversion Program which would enlighten
Germany on American way of life and increase their appreciation for our
country. This program used educational and recreational media to change
views of POW's. The program was successful with many prisoners.
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German Prisoners |
Germans,
too, were imprisoned in WWII
Fate then shipped Ebel
to Camp Forrest in
Tennessee, where he
spent two or three
months. That camp was
emptied out and turned
into a POW camp, and
Ebel was transferred to
Fort Lincoln in North
Dakota...
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Escape Attempt
The earliest recorded
escape attempt occurred
on November 5, 1942. Two
German prisoners, Karl
Kuft and Hans Jourat,
jumped from the train
carrying them from a
transshipment point at
Cincinnati, Ohio, to
their new homes at Camp
Forrest, Tennessee. They
were apprehended two
days...
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Italian American Prisoners
The major internment sites for Italian Americans were Fort George Meade
in Maryland, Camp McAlester in Oklahoma,
Fort Sam Houston in Texas, and
Camp Forrest in Tennessee. Italian Americans were also sent...
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