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Title: POW Camps
Post by: TBolt A-10 on March 21, 2004, 03:54:31 AM

Anyone know why "POW" was painted on the rooftops at this camp?  It seems like a bad idea to advertise to the enemy.  Is this because of some rule of war?

Thnx!

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/77_1079862830_powcamp.jpg)

Title: POW Camps
Post by: Batz on March 21, 2004, 04:09:14 AM

So it wasn't bombed

Title: POW Camps
Post by: Arlo on March 21, 2004, 04:10:27 AM

Not if it's a German P.O.W. camp. Then again ... maybe it's a German munitions factory.

I know if *I* was a P.O.W in Germany ... with bombers bombing anything nearby .... I'd paint it on the roof myself.

p.s. Wouldn't be surprised if the Geneva convention required it.

Title: POW Camps
Post by: TBolt A-10 on March 21, 2004, 01:00:58 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Arlo
p.s. Wouldn't be surprised if the Geneva convention required it.

This is what I'm wondering about.  :confused:

Title: POW Camps
Post by: Guppy35 on March 22, 2004, 01:04:38 AM

I think it may have been right at the end of the war and was done to ID it to planes dropping supplies to the POW or former POWs before the ground pounders got there.

Dan/Slack

Title: POW Camps
Post by: TBolt A-10 on March 22, 2004, 07:54:56 PM

Ah...thanks, Slack.