Camp Adair, Those who served

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This is the POW id photo of Lt. Howard K. Hinds.  This photo was one of several Susan Harms sent to me of her dad. Here is her story -

He deployed to European theater in Sept 1944, was captured Oct 26, near the Begium/Dutch border. He was in the 104th Timberwolves, 414th Co E.  Spent about 2 wks in POW camps in Belgium, then transported by train to Oflag 64, near Torun, Poland. He was in solitary confinement because they found a Polish coin on him, and thought that he was a spy. Was there 65 days. As the Russians advanced, the Germans force marched them to Stalag 3A near Berlin. He was there 75 days.

This line is from Susan - 

"The Russians "liberated" them but did not let them go. He and a Dutch soldier saw and opportunity one nite and crawled under a fence. They made their way west, traveling at nite and hiding by day. Stole a chicken at least once and bicycles. My dad had never ridden a bicycle before that."  


Here is a photo of Howard being repatriated.  Lt. Hinds passed in 1979

Not all military personnel at Camp Adair were Army. Here is a Navy nurse, and a wounded Marine. While recovering from wounds suffered on Iwo Jima, Marine PFC George T. Dore of the 23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division, fell in love with Ensign Dorothea N. Ortopan. She was a nurse for Ward B-18. George was from Latham, New York, and Dorothea came from Akron, Ohio,  Here they are with Wetherford Hall on the Oregon State campus in the background.  They were married July, 1946 after Dorothea got out of the service, and lived in Latham, N.Y. George died in 1984, and Dorothea passed in 2014.

    

     Photographs and information provided by their son George Dore