POWs of OFLAG 64 and 64Z -- National POW Museum, Andersonville NHS, Andersonville GA
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A plaque at the courtyard POW memorial at the National POW Museum, Andersonville NHS, Andersonville GA honors the men of the US Army who were imprisoned at German POW Camps OFLAG 64 and OFLAG 64Z
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Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2017
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The National POW museum is a fascinating place to visit, to learn about the nuances of who is and isn't a POW, the development of the moral imperatives of caring for prisoners which eventually found expression in the Geneva Convention. There are also many rooms of exhibits chronicling the places and experiences of people who served their country as prisoners of war.
As you leave the museum, you enter a courtyard with an arresting statue of a staggering starving POW, on an island creted by a small fountain that winds through he memorial like the Providence Spring did at Andersonville.
Along the walls are separate plaques dedicated to specific units with significant number of prisoners of war. This plaque is located on the western wall of the memorial, and reads as follows:
"[German POW Prison camp]
IN HONOR OF THE
UNITED STATES ARMY
Officers and Enlisted Men
As Prisoners of War
in OFLAG 64 and 64Z
Srubin, Poland and Schokken, Poland
6 Jun 1943-21 January 1945
SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICERS
Col. Thomas D. Drake
Col. Paul R. Goode
Col. Hurley E. Fuller
Lt. Col. Doyle A. Yardley
Liberations at
Moosburg, Germany and Odessa Russia"
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