| Picture of Pan with short note |
| Pam's letter, pages | 1 & 4 | 2 & 3 | 4&6 | 8 & 5 | 9 |
| Western Union Telegram from Provost Marshall General |
A postcard was received by your mother when I was still a PW in Germany. Pamela Carter was a English girl in London who intercepted a radio broadcast in London by the Germans. It seems that the English people would listen the German broadcast regularly because they would give out information on Ameican and English servicemen who were captioned and were now a POW. This particular time Pamela was able to pick up my name and part of my address. She then wrote to your mother telling her what she had heard that I was a POW. Her letter arrived about two or three weeks before the War Department confirmed this. Prior to that the War Department had me listed as Missing in Action. So her letter did releave the worry about me being alive.
I could never understand how the Germans got my home address. I do not ever remember giving this to them after my capture. I remember they gave is stationary and told us to write home and let them know I was a POW, but I did not do this. I do know that the Germans knew more about us then I knew about them. When they asked me for my unit and how many men we had in the area I told them I did not know. So they told me.
Your mother and Pamela did correspond with each other for a time after the War but we finally lost track of her.
DAD