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Island Farm / Camp 198
Island Farm (How Island Farm originated)
Corporal William Odell Stricklin - (108th Field Artillery Battalion / 28th Infantry Division)
Camp 198
A Death At Island Farm
Anti Escape Plans
The Escape Tunnel
How The Escape Was Nearly Foiled
Diversion and Annoyance Tactics
The Big Escape
The Big Escape
Listen to The Actual BBC News Recording Reporting Escape (Read By Alvar Lidell)
Newspaper Cuttings Reporting Escape
Newspaper Cuttings (with Photo) Reporting the Recapture of POWs
Murder Mystery In Porthcawl, Nr Bridgend.
After The Escape (Page Also Includes A 1977 Recording of Escapee Lt Carl Brockmeyer)
Police Commendation (26th March 1945)
Special Camp XI
About Special Camp XI
Some Of The Prisoners Held
Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt
Leutnant Hans Gerd von Rundstedt
Generalfeldmarschall Ewald von Kleist
Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein
Generalfeldmarschall Walter von Brauchitsch
Generalmajor Walter Robert Dornberger
SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Hermann Behrends
SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und Polizei Werner Lorenz (Hermann Behrends' Boss)
Konteradmiral (Ing.) Hans Voss
General der Panzertruppe Hasso Von Manteuffel
Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici
General der Panzertruppe Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin
General der Infanterie Günther Blumentritt
General der Panzertruppe Heinrich Karl Alfons Willy Eberbach
Generalleutnant Johann von Ravenstein
Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben
Vizeadmiral Friedrich Hüffmeier
SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Karl-Maria Demelhuber
Additional POW Profiles
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The above POWs were those identified when this web site was initially created. CLICK HERE TO SEE OVER 200 ADDITIONAL POWs HELD AT ISLAND FARM |
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Life On The Otherside of the Wire
Sergeant William Ronald Williams of 3 Platoon (a guard at Special Camp 11. Also see photo at bottom of page)
Captain Edward (Ted) Lees (Camp Intelligence Officer and Interpreter)
The Unidentified
Unidentified Prisoners & Possible Identifications
Unidentified POW Signatures
Miscellaneous
International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg (Nuremberg) (Includes photos of Lord Oaksey visits Bridgend)
Life In Special Camp XI
POWs Learn English
Works Of Art by German POWs
A Birthday At Island Farm (A Birthday Card To Pfarrer Gruber)
A German POW Marries A Local Girl
Aufwiedersehen - Repatriation
An Official Repatriation List, Photos of the Repatriation and Newspaper Coverage
Closure Of Special Camp 11
Closure of Island Farm Special Camp 11 (2nd Week May 1948)
Modern Day News / Photos
Forty Three Years Later...(1988)
Photos Of Island Farm Prior To The Camp Demolition in 1993 (Photos taken 1989 Approximately)
POW Drawings from the Hut Walls
Fifty Five Years later - Remembering the escape (2000)
Modern Day - A Waste Of Money ? (Councillor Jeff Jones thought preserving Hut 9 was a waste of money.)
Fifty Six Years Later (2001) - What's To Become Of the Island Farm Land ?
Colour Photos Of Hut 9 (Inside and Outside) & Island Farm As It Is Today (All That Remains Of Island Farm)
In 2003, The Escape Tunnel Is Re-opened And Found To Be In Almost Perfect Condition
The Royal Ordnance Factories
Photos Of "The Arsenal" & "The Admiralty"As It Was & Is Today Largest Employee Factories To Date In Britain!
Aerial Photography Of Bridgend Taken by The Luftwaffe & RAF
Air-Raids On South Wales
Unexploded Bomb (UXB) Classification
Rare List Detailing Luftwaffe Air Raid Dates On South Wales and The Areas Around Bridgend
Other POW Camps In Great Britain
Map Showing Location Of Pow Camps and List Of Camps
Other Escape Attempts From Camps in Great Britain
Tips On How To Find Information
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Island Farm Heritage Group
IFHG - The Island Farm Heritage Group & the planned restoration of Hut 9
(Link shows the proposed picture of how Hut 9 could look when restored and opened as a museum)
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Website & Hut 9 Under Attack!
Outspoken attacks on this website and Hut 9 in 2003
Hut 9 Attacked By Vandals 28th/29th January 2004
60th Anniversary of D-Day
Photos from my trip to Normandy Beaches - June 2004
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Sgt William Ronald Williams (Penarth) guarding the fence of Island Farm in 1946. Note: the red circled area highlights an attempt by POWs to saw through the corner fence post. Consequently, the guards added a secondary support post to strengthen the fence. |
Disclaimer
This web site is dedicated to the history and research of the Island Farm POW camp and the German POWs interned during the years 1944 -1948. Although, the web site profiles many POWs both during WWI and WWII, this web site is not about the politics of Nazism.
The extensive use of photographs within this web site is done so for historical purposes and should not be viewed as an attempt to glorify the tragic events of WWII.
This web site does not support in any way those who would condone or embrace individuals, groups and/or organisations that are intolerant, racist or violent.
This web site does not support or endorce those that use the theme of WWII history to further their own political agenda.
Only through honest, objective and impartial research can one ever hope to understand the plight of so many millions of people during the Second World War.
This web site is respectfully dedicated to all those who suffered and died during the most devastating war in human history, on all sides.
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