US EditionPHOTO COLLECTION: Germany WWII Fallen Soldiers
- During World War II, Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, housed approximately 2,724 German prisoners of war by September 1943 in a secured camp below a dam on the Brownwood Country Club property.
- The camp formed amid the war to detain captured soldiers and was established inside a tall barbed-wire fence guarded by machine gun-armed personnel and dog patrols.
- Prisoners attended classes in farming, forestry, building, and bookkeeping, and engaged in recreational activities such as theater, woodworking, billiards, soccer, and tennis within comfortable conditions.
- The camp held up to 3,000 men with five or six fatalities due to illness, and the prisoners maintained a vegetable garden and a cemetery area, with only one body remaining unexhumed due to decomposition according to the cemetery association president.
- Although prisoners did not enjoy their internment and little remains of the camp today, their work in gardens and the cemetery helped pass time, and most deceased soldiers were repatriated to Germany.
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DIANE ADAMS: German POW graves at Jordan Springs
Edward Bailey kneels beside the site of an old prisoner of war grave in a section of land adjacent to the Jordan Springs Cemetery. Photo from Brownwood Bulletin, Jan 26, 1969 Reader James Davis takes a particular interest in Brown County history as a descendant of two pioneering families in the area. Mr. Davis recalled hearing from his late brother Ernest about the German prisoners of war held at Camp Bowie. James’ father, Ed Davis, was a senior…
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