PRISONERS OF WAR, 1939-1945

Richard Craig Anderson	Italy	Liberated April 1945
Mortimer William Belshaw	Western Desert	Exchanged
John Clement	France 1940	Released after Armistice
Donald Q. Coster	France 1940	Released after Armistice
Peter Cooper Tiemann Glenn	Western Desert	Exchanged
George Farquhar James King	France 1940	Released after Armistice
Alexander McElwain	Western Desert	Exchanged
Houghton Pierce Metcalf, Jr.	Italy	Liberated April 1945
William Walter Mitchell	Western Descrt	Exchanged.
Charles Elliott Perkins, Jr.	Western Desert	Exchanged
Laurence Collier Sanders	Western Desert	Exchanged
Alan Rutherford Stuyvesant	Western Desert	Exchanged
Harry Gregory Wait	France 1940	Released after Armistice

 

NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEN, 1939-1945

NUMBER OF MEN

1915-17 ( 6-month enlistment period)	2,500
1939-45 (18-month enlistment period)	2,196
Total strength of various theatres:
France	1940	77
Free French Syria	1941	17
Kenya	1940-41	2
Middle East	1941-43	807
Mediterranean Theatre	1943-45	799
B. L. A. (Holland & Germany)	1945	252
France	1944-45	123
India-Burma	1943-45	812
Total strength overseas on VE Day		891

DISTRIBUTION OF MEN

Every state in the Union was represented except North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah; the following by 60, or more:

1. New York	434
2. Massachusetts	223
3. Pennsylvania	211
4. Connecticut	119
5-.New Jersey	107
6. Illinois	101
7. California	94
8. Ohio	85
9. Wisconsin	62
10. Michigan	60

Men other than U.S. citizens were as follows:

Canadian	3
Dutch	2
English	2
Norwegian	1
South African	2
Spanish	1
Swiss	1

 

EMBARKATIONS

(Transfers from one theatre to another not included)

Theatres		Volunteers
France	1939-1940	77
Kenya Colony	1940-19411	2
Syria (Free French)	January 1941	17
Middle East	November 1941-January 1943	807
Central Mediterranean	February 19943-May 1945	827
India-Burma	April 1943-August 1945	615
France	June 1944-April 11945	1107

Note: In the Battle of the Atlantic three AFS units were torpedoed on the outbound voyage, and four on the home-bound.

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