PRISONER OF WAR EXPERIENCES IN WORLD WAR II Fitzgerald discusses his experiences serving in the army during WWII, taking part in the landing at Anzio, Italy, capture by the Germans, internment at Stalag VIIA and Stalag IIB, conditions and treatment as a POW, escape and reunion with American forces. He recalls the work he performed on a cooperative farm while in the German prison camps, Christmas 1944, and discusses the long term effects of his POW experience.

1 tape, 90 mins., 41 pp. Interview by Glenn Kniss, 1985 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, and a copy of Fitzgerald's membership profile for the Springfield Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War.