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Peter was a National Guardsman called into service during World War II as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. During the Invasion of Sicily (1943), he was taken prisoner by the Germans and taken to an Italian Prisoner of War Camp. As he relates the story, when one of the guards discovered he was of Italian decent, he called him a traitor and threw Peter into solitary confinement at the Prisoner of War Camp in Naples. He later learned that the other guys in his division had been transferred to a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany. He was able to escape after the Italian Declaration of Peace, playing tag with the Nazi's for more than two months before he reached Allied territory (1944). Peter's account of his captivity can be read in its entirety in the Friday Edition of the Berkshire Evening Eagle - January 21, 1944 - Page 1.
Peter was a National Guardsman called into service during World War II as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. During the Invasion of Sicily (1943), he was taken prisoner by the Germans and taken to an Italian Prisoner of War Camp. As he relates the story, when one of the guards discovered he was of Italian decent, he called him a traitor and threw Peter into solitary confinement at the Prisoner of War Camp in Naples. He later learned that the other guys in his division had been transferred to a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany. He was able to escape after the Italian Declaration of Peace, playing tag with the Nazi's for more than two months before he reached Allied territory (1944). Peter's account of his captivity can be read in its entirety in the Friday Edition of the Berkshire Evening Eagle - January 21, 1944 - Page 1.
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Peter was a National Guardsman called into service during World War II as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. During the Invasion of Sicily (1943), he was taken prisoner by the Germans and taken to an Italian Prisoner of War Camp. As he relates the story, when one of the guards discovered he was of Italian decent, he called him a traitor and threw Peter into solitary confinement at the Prisoner of War Camp in Naples. He later learned that the other guys in his division had been transferred to a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany. He was able to escape after the Italian Declaration of Peace, playing tag with the Nazi's for more than two months before he reached Allied territory (1944). Peter's account of his captivity can be read in its entirety in the Friday Edition of the Berkshire Evening Eagle - January 21, 1944 - Page 1.
Peter was a National Guardsman called into service during World War II as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. During the Invasion of Sicily (1943), he was taken prisoner by the Germans and taken to an Italian Prisoner of War Camp. As he relates the story, when one of the guards discovered he was of Italian decent, he called him a traitor and threw Peter into solitary confinement at the Prisoner of War Camp in Naples. He later learned that the other guys in his division had been transferred to a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany. He was able to escape after the Italian Declaration of Peace, playing tag with the Nazi's for more than two months before he reached Allied territory (1944). Peter's account of his captivity can be read in its entirety in the Friday Edition of the Berkshire Evening Eagle - January 21, 1944 - Page 1.
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