| Inspection 01-27-1944 Italian Camp |
| HEADQUARTERS 1537th Service Unit Prisoner of War Camp Camp Atterbury, Indiana 27 January 1944 The following data pertaining to the Prisoner of War Camp, Camp Atterbury, Indiana, is prepared for the Provost Marshall General, Attention: Captain Schwieger: LOCATION: Distance and direction from nearest city: 5 miles west of Edinburg, Indiana; distance and direction from nearest air port - 15 miles north of Atterbury Air Base; distance and direction from nearest railroad - 4 miles west of Pennsylvania Railroad; distance and direction from nearest defense installations - 10 miles south of Franklin, Indiana. TELEPHONE NUMBER: Extension 472. (Colonel J. L. Gammell - 470) CAMP COMMANDER: J. L. Gammell, Colonel, F. A., 06714 DATE OF ACTIVATION: 15 December 1942 NUMBER OF PRISONERS: Privates
--------------------------------------- 2,485 NATIONALITY: Italian HAS PROCESSING BEEN COMPLETED: Yes RANKING PRISONER OF WAR SPOKESMAN: Tavoni, Napoleone, Marescialle ITALIAN OFFICERS: Marchi, Efro, ISN-MBS-419-MI, 1st Lt. and Castelli, Giuseppe, ISN-MBS-293-MI, 2nd Lt. BLUE PRINT: See Inclosure No. 2 BLANK FORMS, ETC: See Inclosure No. 3 CAMP REGULATIONS: See Inclosure No. 4 PRISONERS OF WAR SICK IN HOSPITAL: (27 January 1944) - 48 PRISONERS OF WAR EMPLOYED AT STATION HOSPITAL: (as dental assistants) - 9 MEDICAL OFFICERS (Whose duties are to care for ad treat Prisoners of War in infirmaries and Station Hospital) - 2 PRISONERS OF WAR EMPLOYED IN PW INFIRMARIES (as medical assistants) - 7 |
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