Innocents Abroad

Innocents Abroad Is A Memoir Although The Original Purpose Was To Preserve For My Children And Grandchildren Two Logs Which Described Forced Marches Across Poland And Germany While I Was A Prisoner Of War During Ww Ii. I Obtained Two War Time Logs And Filled Them With Day-To-Day Accounts Of Our Forced March Out Of Stalag Luft Iii In Sagan Germany (Now Poland) In January 1945 And Later Our March From Nurnberg To Moosberg Germany. I Discovered These Logs In 2004 In My Bookcase 60 Years Later. They Were Written In Pencil Barely Legible Sometimes Under Dreadful Weather Conditions. I Decided To Copy Them Before They Became Completely Unreadable. I Have Read Many Accounts Of The Forced Walks Prisoners Made During The Winter Of 1945. I Found Them Fascinating But Most Of Them Were Written Many Years After The Event. As I Read My Logs I Realized It Is The Only Day-By-Day Account Of The Hardships Encountered By The 12 000 Prisoners. Later When We Walked Out The Nurnberg The Numbers Swelled To Over 100 000. I Received Considerable Encouragement From The Secretary Of The 467Th Bomb Group Organization To Enlarge The Scope Of The Account To Include A Biographical Account Of My Life Leading Up To My Experiences As A Pow And Of My Life Following Ww Ii. I Didn'T Become A Member Of The 467Th Bomb Group Organization Until They Held A Reunion In San Antonio Texas. Since That Time I Have Not Missed Any Of The Reunions. At These Events I Have Met Many Children Who Had A Parent Who Served In The 467Th Bomb Group. They Have Expressed Keen Interest In Reading This Account Since It May Also Parallel The Experiences Of One Of Their Parents.