April 12, 1945 - The Onward March to Stalag Luft VIIA
The group of prisoners, including Gerard Kelleher and David Yemen would leave Stalag Luft XIIID near Nuremburg today, continuing the march to Stalag VIIA. learning of the death of US President Roosevelt along the way.
Yet again, the timing would prove unlucky for Kelleher and Yemen as they would find themselves just missing the U.S. Army again. By the time the US Army marched into Stalag Luft XIIID four days later, Kelleher, Yemen and their fellow evacuees were already well on their way to the next camp. The only airmen still at Stalag Luft XIIID were approximately 13,000 quarantined POWs with typhoid fever.
For the marchers, food rations on the march towards Stalag Luft VIIA in Moosburg included a combination of whatever was left over from their Red Cross rations and anything the POWs and their German guards were able to scrounge along the way.
Yet again, the timing would prove unlucky for Kelleher and Yemen as they would find themselves just missing the U.S. Army again. By the time the US Army marched into Stalag Luft XIIID four days later, Kelleher, Yemen and their fellow evacuees were already well on their way to the next camp. The only airmen still at Stalag Luft XIIID were approximately 13,000 quarantined POWs with typhoid fever.
For the marchers, food rations on the march towards Stalag Luft VIIA in Moosburg included a combination of whatever was left over from their Red Cross rations and anything the POWs and their German guards were able to scrounge along the way.
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