245256 Henry J. Chiarini US Army from:Boston, MA My father, Hank Chiarini many times spoke of the food provided to Prisoners Of War at Stalag 221, "it was water with rotten vegetables floating in it". Sometimes he would critique my mother's home-cooked meals by saying, "the food was better at Stalag 221." I never forgot that. My dad was captured when the Jeep he was driving overturned in rain and fog, he became disoriented and the Germans caught him. He managed to escape captivity twice, once hiding in an apple tree in an orchard for 3 days, surviving on apples. Another incident was during a POW train transport, my father and several other POWs jumped from the moving train.
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