Ewell R. McCright collection, 1942-1985.

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Ewell R. McCright collection, 1942-1985.

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The most important aspect of this collection are copies of the journals kept by Ewell McCright during his time as a prisoner of war during World War II. Three of the original journals are housed in the Library of Congress and one is held at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) library in the Clark Special Collections area . McCright detailed the personal backgrounds and wartime injuries of more than two thousand prisoners in four journals, which he hid under the floorboards of the prisoner barracks. When forced to move to another camp, McCright secretly carried the journals with him in place of food. The journals contain brief histories of the capture and treatment of allied Air Force prisoners of war brought to the south compound of Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany. Also included are comments relating to other prisoner of war camps and Nazi concentration camps, especially Buchenwald.

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US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

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US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

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Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

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Buchenwald concentration camp, one of the largest in Germany with its 130 satellite camps and units, was situated 5 miles north of Weimar in Thüringen. It was established in July 1937 when the first group of 149 mostly political prisoners and criminals was received. Some 238,980 prisoners passed through Buchenwald from 30 countries. 43,005 were killed or perished there....

McCright, Ewell R, 1917-1990.

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Ewell McCright was born in 1917, enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1940, and applied for aviation training in 1941. He was assigned as a bombardier with the Eighth Army Air Corps and was on a mission in 1943 when his plane was attacked. McCright bailed out but was captured by the Germans and taken to Stalag Luft III where he started writing his journals. In addition to personal information about his fellow prisoners, his journals contained accounts of the atrocities at both Auschwitz and Buchenwald ...

Stalag Luft III

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