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Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp
Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp

Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp

Date1/27/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sentries are suspicious; Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp. At each corner of the compound is a tower from which a sentry observes a section f the compound.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019135F
Former fighter pilot: Wally Floody, 69, the chief planner of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944, holds a photo taken of himself during his internment
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Each Prisoner is allowed $3 worth of coupons per month to buy ice cream and other refreshments in the canteen of the internment camp at Camp Chaffee, Ark
1/14/1943
John W. Morrill, left, made his escape from Corregidor in a small boat and 31 days later reached Australia
John W. Morrill, left, made his escape from Corregidor in a small boat and 31 days later reached Australia
5/22/1943
Former spitfire pilot C. Wallace Floody, who was shot down in 1941, holds picture of himself taken in a German war-prisoner camp
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5/7/1975
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Thousands of German 'teen-agers, such as these young Nazis who surrendered to the Allies, who were taken during 1945 from their homes in the Soviet oc(...)
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Barbed wire and floodlights bar the way to, Here is the Northern Ontario prison camp from which Lieut
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Left behind, A crowd of German prisoners lounge about the yard of a prison camp in the Sudbury area, from which an airman and a naval petty officer es(...)
8/29/1940
Born in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, these four Toronto teenagers look at the official record of the prison camp held in David Goldsilver, vice-p(...)
Born in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, these four Toronto teenagers look at the official record of the prison camp held in David Goldsilver, vice-p(...)
4/27/1965
Completely Clad in Germany garb, even to the helmet, this Polish woman on guard at Haren camp is here inspecting the identity card of Driver William M(...)
Completely Clad in Germany garb, even to the helmet, this Polish woman on guard at Haren camp is here inspecting the identity card of Driver William M(...)
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Kananaskis by prisoners is in the Rockiest wast of Calgary, of the camps enemy aliens are interned [Incomplete]
3/12/1940