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| 15.Jan.2006 3:21 | | To: Island Farm POW Camp Website |
| Interesting website and very informative. I found your website accidentally, when I was searching the Internet for information in connection w/the Hungarian-Swiss military historian, Peter Gosztonyi's book "The Hungarian Army in the Second World War". I also discovered some (for me) new information. Thank you. LGF. |
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| 11.Jan.2006 21:03 | | To: All |
| I would like to add that I was born in 1939 and we lived right next to a POW camp in Huyton Merseyside,I remember well walking round the camp with my older brother and the internees used to speak to us through the barbed wire,at that camp part of it was brand new council house`s that had just been built where the internee`s where billitted and when they left the new tenant`s discovered the most beautiful mural`s that the inmate`s had drawn,hard but happy day`s. |
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| 11.Jan.2006 20:56 | | To: All |
| A truly great site,brings back many memories |
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| 30.Dec.2005 10:22 | | To: All |
| Great site. I have a webpage on Ganger Camp Romsey if anyone is interested. Just go to woodleynet.co.uk and click on Ganger Camp History. |
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| 23.Dec.2005 22:53 | | To: all |
| without a doubt one of the most intersting sites on the www |
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| 9.Dec.2005 21:12 | | To: All |
| I have just spent a couple of hours reading through your pages on a subject I have never before been interested in! i stumbled in by accident and am amazed to find that there was a POW camp very close to my home in Comrie. I am going to find out more now! Well done for creating such a great site! |
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| 8.Dec.2005 21:14 | | To: All |
| What a great web site.Very imformative.I never knew so much history existed on the island concerning pows. |
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| 6.Dec.2005 8:36 | | To: All |
Dear Sir,
My congratulations on a very good website! I noticed it when my great-nephew was searching it a few weeks ago.
It is a shame that Britain's post-war history is not as explored more often!
With kind regards,
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Clifford Rose
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| 1.Dec.2005 20:06 | | To: Brett and Shawn |
Dudes,
Really great, informative website. I've been captivated all morning. I'm particularly impressed with the balance struck between the technical details provided and the more visceral first and second person accounts of Island Farm.
Thanks from Canada for all the time and effort you've put into this gret website! |
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| 28.Nov.2005 11:51 | | To: All |
| I was born in Merthyr Mawr Village. My mum was a little girl during WW11 and remembers the German Officers making toys for her and the other children in the village. It is alleged that my grandad who was in the home guard on the night of the escape pointed one of the officers in the direction of the coast , not realising who he was! |
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| 24.Nov.2005 10:14 | | To: all |
Hi, I am from TAIWAN. Is there any information or website about Luftwaffe pilots? Aces?
Many Thanks! |
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| 21.Nov.2005 5:50 | | To: Webmaster |
An incredible resource... probably the single best WWII website I've come across in more than 2 years of research on this tragic war. I hope you can continue to add to it, and improve upon it's depth.
As an aside, it is truly a disgrace the way in which some of the German senior officers (von Rundstedt comes to mind) were treated after this war. No doubt driven by the politics of pleasing the Soviets at the time, but nevertheless a disgrace to the honor of most of those men, and the service they gave to their country. A duty any of us would have answered should we have been called, though unlikely as well performed. |
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| 20.Nov.2005 22:05 | | To: owner |
Have just surfed in - very interesting site. However, I couldn't find the Italian Prisoner of War Camp at the village of HEDON, east of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. I believe the prisoners who wanted to used to help on the local farms. The huts were still standing when I left Hedon 1966.
Good luck in your endeavours.
Rena in Lancashire.
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| 13.Nov.2005 7:12 | | To: Webmasters |
| Very informative. My grandfather Coloman Revesz succeeded in having his brother-in-law Major General noble Jeno Bor de Halmaji repatriated in 1946. I have always wondered if Uncle Jeno was convicted on any war crimes, or simply interned because of his rank. |
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| 8.Nov.2005 23:16 | | To: All |
What an excellent site. Well done.
I was born ( Jan. 1939 ) and grew up in Aston - in - Makerfield, Lancs. I well recall the pow camp out on the Haydock Road - the M.6 motorway runs over part of it now.
On the opposite side of the road was Haydock Park Racecourse on which the USA forces had a camp. Much more interesting to small boys because chocolate was available from the servicemen ! Something we did not get much of in the war years.
On Saturdays on payment of 1old penny you could enter the camp to watch the football match . I recall a rather tall chap playing on the wing who took over as goalkeeper one week a position he went onto play for Manchester City after the war.
Bert Truatman ( the spelling may not be correct ) there was the famous cup final where he played for most of the game with a broken neck !!
But I'm sure you will know all of this. Many thanks for all the hard work that must have gone into producing your excellent site.
Sam
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| 23.Oct.2005 10:27 | | To: all |
| great web hope to give more info for your p.o.w. camps in and around camp 97. |
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| 18.Oct.2005 14:46 | | To: Brett |
| A great website which my daughter (10) is searching through for a presentation she has to do in school. It's good to see local history being kept alive. |
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| 14.Oct.2005 12:47 | | To: All |
Watched a doco on TV about the Great Welsh Escape. Thought I was up on WW2 but had never heard of this episode so wanted more info. Excellent & informative site. TV show produced in Germany was also excellent.
Congrats .. Roland Oz |
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| 11.Oct.2005 11:57 | | To: all |
| just read dornbergers book v2,be'ing born in penge s e london in 1945 and growing up amongst the bombsites,found it very interesting,so in researching,found your very interesting site,thanks to the net,will return often, |
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| 6.Oct.2005 2:15 | | To: All |
| I visited your site after reading "Night Crossing" by Robert Ryan. A fascinating glimpse into a part of WW2 history I had never considered before. Many thanks and keep up the good work!! |
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| 3.Oct.2005 11:23 | | To: All |
very informative site well done.
we will have to visit the site some time |
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| 30.Sep.2005 18:13 | | To: All |
| Found you while trying to find out about the pow camp behind my father's house when he was a boy. He used to play football with the Italian POWs,(and eat their chocolate!)From your list it must have been Stanhope in Ashford, Kent. Very useful site. Thank you. |
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| 28.Sep.2005 14:04 | | To: islandfarm |
| Great site...Very interesting and well done...Regarding the unknown signatures, could the one that you potentially identified as being Bormann(lower right)..Could that be "General Arnim" who was captured in Tunisia in '43? ...Just a thought...Thanks again for the great site & greetings from New Jersey, USA. |
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| 23.Sep.2005 0:49 | | To: Brett |
| Thanks for the info. A brilliant site. All your hard work is much appreciated. Jack 'The Leger Guide' Cheers. |
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| 13.Sep.2005 23:10 | | To: All |
| please i need a photo about Von Senger und Etterlin, can you send me one ???? |
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