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Description
Walter Hustus of the Army Air Corps sent his family a brief post card about his capture by the Germans and asking for various food items.
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About This Item
- Title: Postcard concerning capture by Germans, 1944
- Creator: Walter L. Hustus
- Creation Date: 1944-05-02
- Subject Date: 1944
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Locations:
- Gneixendorf, Austria
- South Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Postcard
- Local Code: Coll. 2133, Series 1, Box 1/3
- Collection: Walter Hustus collection
- Object Type: Text
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Standardized Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
- United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 303rd
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
- Prisoners of war -- United States
- B-17 bomber
- Prisoners of war -- Germany
- Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British
- Hustus, Walter, 1921-1999--Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- Airmen -- United States
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