Pte. Charles Edward Morrison
U.S. Army 17th Field Artilley Group
from:Middlesboro, Kentucky
My Uncle, Ed Morrison, was stationed in Tunisia, North Africa with the 17th Field Artillery Group. These undermanned Allies were overwhelmed by a large Nazi contingent under the Leadership of German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Nazi Afrika Korps.
Ed was captured by the German attack force on 14th of February 1943. After several relocations, including attacks on German aircraft he was in by American pilots unaware their fellow soldiers were on board. These men were also marched mercilessly in sub-zero temperatures with little food or clothing. He and his fellow prisoners, spent the remainder of World War 2 surviving in the inhumane confines of P.O.W. camps USA KD01, Stalags 7A, 3A and Nazi Stalag 3B located in Furstenberg, Germany near the Polish border. Ed and his Brothers in Arms spent over two years incarcerated. He saw many horrors of war, he was punished, in one instance, caught,with potato peelings in his pocket to help a fellow soldier who was sick, to a stint in solitary confinement.
Uncle Ed survived Stalag 3b, he came home to Middlesboro and worked for 40 years at Kentucky Utilities and raising his wonderful family. My Uncle is a warm, kind, gentle husband, father, brother, uncle and friend to many. He is a hero to me, although he would always say " The heroes are the ones who didn't come home".
