Prisoner of war
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Sep 25, 2026
Juan AyalaGUEST
I didn't know about that.
Juan AyalaGUEST
The influx of POWs to the United States stemmed from overcrowded camps in Europe, which held more than 250,000 prisoners by 1942.
Juan AyalaGUEST
To ease this burden, military officials transferred some German POWs from Europe to the United States where they were put to work addressing labor shortages in essential industries, particularly agriculture.
Juan AyalaGUEST
Florida's mild climate and low construction costs made it an ideal location for these camps, requiring minimal heating resources that were urgently needed on the warfront and check this part out here home to more than 20 camps the state state state's two largest military installations camp blanding near stark camp gordon johnston uh in the panhandle served as the primary pow camps with more than 20 smaller branch camps scattered throughout the state Among them was Camp Leesburg in Lake County, southeast of Silver Lake.
Juan AyalaGUEST
It had initially opened in 1942 as an Army Air Force Air Forces training facility and transitioned to a POW camp in March of 1944.
Juan AyalaGUEST
Following this period, prisoners worked to expand the camp's facilities, etc., etc.
Juan AyalaGUEST
Right here, check this part out.
Juan AyalaGUEST
Many of the POWs at Camp Leesburg were members of the Africa Corps, led by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, which had surrendered to Allied forces in 1943.
Vin ScullySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Two down in the fifth inning with the Dodgers leading the Giants four to nothing.
Vin ScullySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Just to conclude that thought about Donatelli having great credentials, Augie was a coal miner and an ex-ball player who was a prisoner of war in a German camp during World War II.
Vin ScullySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he began umpiring the POWs ball games.
Vin ScullySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a loop in the right field.
Vin ScullySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's going to be trouble.
Brannon HowseHOST
Send 100,000 over there, brainwash them.
Brannon HowseHOST
You don't need to go to war and kidnap them like they did during the Korean War with the POWs and brainwash them.
Brannon HowseHOST
Bring them in for further education.
Brannon HowseHOST
Come here and do your education.
Greg BradyHOST
By the way, we could make movies again just like Stallone was making in 1985.
Greg BradyHOST
Russia can be involved in trying to stop Rambo rescuing POWs in Vietnam.
Greg BradyHOST
That's Rambo First Blood Part 2.
Greg BradyHOST
Months later, we get Rocky IV.
Francis DearnleyHOST
And just so I'm clear on this, Dom, before we go to the diplomatic updates.
Francis DearnleyHOST
So these missing people, so this is not including people who are POWs, not conf-confirmed dead of either side.
Francis DearnleyHOST
So these are people of which basically we know nothing.
Francis DearnleyHOST
Is that right? They are, as it were-
Tim DilenaHOST
He's right on the heels of the betrayal by the men in the Philistine army.
Tim DilenaHOST
David and his soldiers' families are all taken as POWs, and this is how 1 Samuel 30 starts.
Tim DilenaHOST
"Then it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire.
Tim DilenaHOST
And they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way.
Matthew CollinsHOST
John has pieced together his understanding of his father's war from various sources, from things his father and his relatives told him, from what he's read, particularly the war diaries of his dad's CO, legendary Dr Weary Dunlop, the Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, and the biography of Weary Dunlop by best-selling historian Peter Fitzsimons, as well as from John's personal visits to camps where his father and uncle were held.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Their time as POWs took them from the bicycle camp, the former Dutch barracks of a bicycle infantry unit, which was filled with a huge stockpile of left-behind bicycles, to Bandung, to transit through Singapore's Changi Jail and then Bangkok, and to Konyu, the start of the Thai-Burma railway.
Matthew CollinsHOST
From there, his dad and uncle lived in camps that the prisoners built themselves as the railway progressed north-west towards Burma.
Matthew CollinsHOST
After the railway was completed, Norman and his brother were shipped to Japan to work in a Nihama copper mine.
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John RouseGUEST
Indeed, and with much worse medical attention, virtually no medical attention.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Well, because they didn't have their own people.
Matthew CollinsHOST
At least the POWs had people like Weary Dunlop, who was a medical officer.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Yes, that's
Jan Cress DondiGUEST
[laughs]
Gary Scott ThomasHOST
... w- of these pilots went missing or POWs or were killed for this, this one mission base.
Jan Cress DondiGUEST
It, well, w- well, the air, the campaign.
Gary Scott ThomasHOST
Yeah, the campaign-
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Jan Cress DondiGUEST
The guys in the regular, um, bomb groups, they hadn't really been shot out of the sky.
Jan Cress DondiGUEST
They were more ra-ra, go, go, let's go get 'em.
Jan Cress DondiGUEST
The POWs were more, "We know what it's like to be shot down.
Jan Cress DondiGUEST
We don't wanna go there anymore." You know, that, you know, it's not a nice ...
Matthew CollinsHOST
Yes.
Matthew CollinsHOST
The fighting and then as POWs, which obviously we're going to come on to in a minute.
John RouseGUEST
Yeah.
Matthew CollinsHOST
And did he give you any specific accounts of fighting in the Japanese army?
Matthew CollinsHOST
And that's where we leave Norman Rouse for the moment.
Matthew CollinsHOST
In the next episode, we hear how he and his brother survived as slave labourers on the Thai-Burma railway.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Meanwhile, if you want to see pictures of Norman and his brother at the horse races in Ipoh before they became POWs, please go to my website www.matthewcollins.com.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Here you'll find info about all the episodes, as well as pictures of all the men featured in We Sons of World War II Veterans.
Lance StormSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, no, no, no.
Lance StormSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hey, Lance, this P.O.W. crap has gone on long enough.
Lance StormSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Major Gunns is not Canadian.
Lance StormSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She never was Canadian.
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