LW Ace PoW from BoB ‘Exchanged’ in 1943 –becomes a Bomber Killer!!!

[Chris Goss]

Kienzle told me he did not fly operational sorties after being repatriated

[Boomerang]

Gentlemen:

The following passage appears in Caldwell's JG 26 War Diary Volume Two. It relates to a prisoner exchange involving Fw Heuser of 2/JG 26, shot down by light flak over Normandy in August 1944, captured and taken to a military hospital in Tennessee. It is an account from Heuser:

On 24 November a mixed medical commission, comprising an American and two Swiss military doctors, visited the camp. They decided to exchange me for a wounded American in German captivity.

In late December the wounded prisoners to be exchanged were taken to Brooklyn and loaded on an American hospital ship, which took us to Marseille, France...After the arrival of further exchange ships, we were put on a train of The International Red Cross, which took us to the German border in Constance. The exchange between German and American wounded prisoners of war took place in Constance on 18 January 1945. I saw no further employment in the war.

I'm glad this thread got going, I'm intrigued about what seems a most unlikely exchange program. Hope more imformation comes to light.

Cheers

Don W

[christian]

Hi

Feldwebel Fritz Schweser from the 7.Staffel of the III./JG 54 was captured on the 09. Oktober 1940. He came back 1943, but never flew another mission.

Greetings Christian

[Nokose]

I saw in a German March 1944 newsreel some returning exchanged soldiers getting off a ship at a French port but can't seem to find the old VHS tape it was on now.