259468 Pvt. Mario "Marty" DelArciprete US Army from:Massachusetts My stepfather, Mario DelArciprete was captured while on a scouting expedition. He was taken to Stalag 7B, in Memingen, Bavaria. I don't know all of the details, but he had had a ruptured appendix and was a a hospital at the time of liberation. He spoke of being hungry all the time. He said the Russian soldiers were treated the worst, only being fed a couple of times a week. Marty told the story of being pulled in a wagon to get to hospital after appendix burst. At the hospital, he saw German soldiers in rough condition and didn't think he would make it out alive. He did. On the journey back to the camp, the soldier pulling the wagon was shot and killed, just before they arrived. Marty weighed 87 pounds when liberated, he was 6 feet tall.
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