Samuel Eugene Lawrence papers, 1944-1945.

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Samuel Eugene Lawrence papers, 1944-1945.

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Volume of sketches, lists, and journal entries, photographs, and ephemera, 1944-1945 documenting S.E. Lawrence's two and one half year imprisonment in German territory as a prisoner of war after enemy fire downed his plane over North Africa in 1942. The Germans confined Lawrence at Oflag XXI-B, a prison camp for officers located near Schoken, Poland, as well as at Luftwaffenlager III in Silesia, the Nazi encampment for captured British and American air force personnel known as Sagan that was immortalized in Paul Brickhill's 1950 book, The Great Escape. In addition to the sketches in the volume, 35 snapshots document scenes at the Sagan, Nuremberg, and Moosburg prisoner-of-war camps, on the forced marches, first from Sagan to Nuremberg, and then from Nuremberg to Moosburg, and images following liberation. Photographs are marked copyright of H.E. Kious and each is carefully labeled.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Lawrence, Samuel Eugene, 1914-2004

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Airman from United States who served in World War II; held as a prisoner of war in various camps in Poland and Germany during 1944-1945; completed degree in civil engineering from Louisiana State University (Class of 1938); graduated from the Army Air Corps at Kelly Field, Texas, in 1939 as a fighter pilot; resident of Columbia, S.C. From the description of Samuel Eugene Lawrence papers, 1944-1945. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 670114910 ...