On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 04:12:30 GMT, "Jim Atkins"
wrote:

There was a camp in Phoenix- some of the German POWs heard that they were
not too far from the Salt River, so they put together some kind of raft and
got through the wire. Imagine their disappointment at reaching the
rock-strewn ditch that passes for a river in Arizona. Incidentally, they got
caught.

There was a POW camp for Italians just north of San Bernardino (not
far from the Stringfellow Acid Pits). They only tore out the last
foundation slab a couple of years ago. Back then, that was a remote
location, although there's a river that goes to San Pedro eventually
not too far away.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

"A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all."
Anonymous US fighter pilot