May 3, 1945 - Red Cross Supplies Arrive

POWs welcome U.S. liberators at Stalag Luft VIIA, Source: USAF Academy Library Special Collections

Much to the relief of the former prisoners still awaiting evacuation at the now-liberated Stalag Luft VIIA near Moosburg, the Red Cross arrived on May 3rd, bringing with them truckloads of food parcels.  In his book Time Out. A Remembrance of World War II, American airman Bill Ethridge described this new situation: “Every day has been a picnic with plenty of food, wood to cook with and bread that tasted like cake. And thank the Good Lord no more barley.”