Prisoners of War in New Mexico Agriculture
Abstract of Interview
CONSULTANT:
William A. (Bill) Rice
TAPE NUMBER: RG2000-025
DATE
OF BIRTH: March 11, 1937
SEX:
Male
DATE(S)
OF INTERVIEW: July 25, 2000
LOCATION
OF INTERVIEW: Lordsburg, New Mexico
INTERVIEWER:
Mollie Pressler
SOURCE
OF INTERVIEW: NMF&RHM__X___OTHER__________
TRANSCRIBED: YES___X____
NO_______
NUMBER
OF TAPES: One
ABSTRACTOR:
Sylvia Wheeler
DATE
ABSTRACTED: April 27, 2001
QUALITY
OF RECORDING (SPECIFY): Good
SCOPE
AND CONTENT NOTE: Boyhood memories of prisoners of war in Lordsburg, New
Mexico, during World War II.
DATE
RANGE: 1944
Tape
One:
William
A. Rice moved from Phoenix, Arizona, to Lordsburg, New Mexico, in 1944 when he
was seven years old. He watched an ice plant being built on a neighbor’s
property with the help of the German prisoners of war (POW).
He remembers ten or twelve prisoners in groups guarded by one guard who
carried a carbine gun. The POWs appeared to be happy. He did hear of an
attempted escape, but recalls that it was not successful and the POWs were found
not far from the camp.
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