POWs & Evadees
A repository for material related to 306th Bomb Group prisoners of war and evadees, including transcribed accounts, donated documents, and the Echoes series “Through the Eye of the Needle.”
About this collection
This page is being initiated in May 2015 to be a repository for material related to POWs and evadees. We welcome contributions.
The Yankee Kriegies
The Yankee Kriegies is an interesting read regarding the life of some of our WWII POWs in a German camp. It was published by the YMCA and written by Colonel C. Ross Greening and Sergeant Angelo M. Spinelli in collaboration with John R. Burkhart.
Escape & Evasion Reports
The Escape & Evasion Reports are a collection of documents with accounts of 20 evadees, several lists of 306th Evadees and a couple of correspondence items with our founding Secretary Russell Strong. The quality varies from clear to mostly unreadable and there are some duplicates.
Two further reports, held separately and digitised by the National Archives, are listed below the index.
- Forrest D. Hartin, p1
- Erwin Derold Wissenback, p 33 & p40
- Richard D. Adams, p5
- John S Trost, p 29, p35
- August Winters p 8, ,p11
- William J. Gise, p43
- William E Scott, p12
- Allen N. Robinson p45,
- Ragnar E Gustafson, p 13
- John L Ryan p46
- Ivan E. Glaze, p14
- Robert E Kylius p56
- Warren W Cole, p18
- Raymond Walls p59
- Ernest T. Moriarity p 19, p36
- Claiborne J. Wilson p62
- Robert E. Biggs, p21, p39
- Edward Maslanka p69
- John R. McKee, p27
- George S. Monser p76
Additional reports from the National Archives
“Through the Eye of the Needle” · Echoes series
Echoes Oct 2000, p.7 article, “Through the Eye of the Needle — A Series by 10 306th Men,” regarding the book Through the Eye of the Needle which was edited by Joe Consolmagno, and published in 1992 by Stalag Luft III Former Prisoners of War, introduced the Echoes series. In part this introductory article named the ten 306th men listed below, and said:
“306th Echoes has received permission from Gen. Albert P. Clark to reprint in upcoming issues their stories, which will appear in alpha order. Clark, a fighter pilot, was one of the very first American pilots to fall into German hands. Below are the stories of:”