| July 29, 1944 | Shot down – I mile N.E. of Nieoertreba. Imprisoned in Fr-Bel. Prison Camp at Bad Solza |
| 30 | Transferred to Prison at Weimar |
| 31 | Transferred to Interrogation Camp at Oberursel |
| August 1 | Transferred to Transient Camp at Oberursel |
| 2 | Transferred to Transient Camp at Wetzlar. Wrote card home. |
| 4 | Left Wetzlar |
| 4–8 | Traveled on train to Barth |
| 8 | Arrived Barth. Lived in North/Compound in tent. |
| 27 | Went to communion |
| September 4 | Saw movie (Andy Hardy’s Double Life) |
| 12 | Moved to North 2 Compound, Block 2, Room 9 |
| 10 | Big RAF Show |
| 23 | Harris and Jest arrived |
| 24 | Library Opened |
| 26 | McMahon arrived |
| October 9 | Collar arrived |
| 21 | Griffin arrived |
| 30 | Col. Spicer makes speech. Goes to cooler. |
| November 4 | Birthday - Big 3 layer cake |
| 25 | Saw movie (Deanna Durbin in Springtime) |
| December 7 | Korth went to hospital |
| 18 | Rec’d 1st letter. Written Oct. 25 – Maxine |
| 13 | North 3 compound opened. |
| 23 | Christmas parcel rec’d |
| 24 | Christmas Eve Party in new mess hall |
| 25 | Christmas Day. Big meal. |
| 30 | Exchanged stoves. Col. Spicer sentenced to die 4/1/45. |
| 31 | Big New Years Eve Party. Camp. N24N3 opened |
| January 1, 1945 | New Years Day |
| 12 | New Russian offensive begins. |
| 16 | Visited South Compound. Library moves to BR1F7 in office. |
| 20 | 4 man combine moves in. Now 20 men to room |
| 25 | Jewish boys move to North Compound #1 |
| February 3 | Big RAF show |
| 8 | 1500 N.C.O’s arrive in camp from Memel & Keyfeit |
| 9 | Sprained knee again |
| 10 | Went on sick call to hospital |
| 15 | Rec’d 4 Letters |
| 11 | Went to Communion |
| 16 | Rec’d 9 Letters |
| 17 | Went on sick call again. Red Cross issue - 1 to 4 men |
| 19 | P.O.W.’s from Stargard arrived. Went to home Arch. Class |
| 20 | New shower room opened. On K.P. No Lights |
| 21 | Water & Lights Off. Very Fine Day. |
| 22 | Rec’d Christmas Card. Mildred Lohrke. |
| 27 | P.O.W.’s from Keyfeit arrived. Saw show from N.1 Comp. (Musical Comedy). Jest doing cooking.. Mosquito strafes near camp. Red Cross 1 to 4 men. |
| 28 | Rec’d letter – Lois Schutt. Very Fine day. |
| March 1 | Rec’d letter – Fred Fitzhugh. Christmas Card - Mom. Cutting logs for fuel. Stew got 1st letter |
| 2 | P.O.W.’s arrive, Some P.O.W. for 5 years (around the bend). Made Stone walk in compound. Designed house. Cold day. Strong Winds. |
| 3 | Rec’d letter Ruth Diers. Very Find Day. News good. |
| 4 | Went to Church. Snow. Wind blowing hard. |
| 5 | Nice day outside. Jest finishes cooking week. Air Raid. 8 Contrails from fighters visible. Took shower. |
| 6 | Very nice day. On K.P. Last of food eaten. On Jerry Rations. Russians 95 miles away. Good news. Loud speakers installed. Best R.A.F. show yet. Raided Convoy. |
| 7 | Cold, dark day. Volksfurm taking over camp. Rutebega ration. Russians 81 miles away. Took another shower. |
| 8 | Went out to roll call. Dark day. Snow. Started work (H20) Radio on for 1st time. Very good to hear music & news. |
| 9 | Unsettled day. Lights on for 1st time since Feb. 19 |
| 10 | Fair Day. No News. Food getting low. |
| 11 | Went to Church & Communion. Lt. Castle(?) died in hospital. Snow in morning. Cold and fair in afternoon. 2 |
| 12 | Big air raid in afternoon. Cloudy day. Garden seeds come in. Decide to break up combines. |
| 13 | Combine breaks up. Verbruggen moves out. Now 6 combines. Shots for compound. Wrote letters to Mom & Ruth. |
| 14 | Now in 4 man combine. Cold dreary day. Rutebega ration |
| 15 | Identity roll call. Noodle soup ration. Warm day. |
| 16 | Cold day. Potatoes rationed. Sergeants move to BR#1. Bld’g racks in BR#8. Rutebega ration. |
| 17 | Boys from tent move in next door. New staff in kitchen. |
| 18 | Lt. Wyman killed and Lt. Whitehouse injured during air raid. Went to Church. Todd working in kitchen. |
| 19 | No light tonight. Glee club & orchestra entertainment in mess hall today & tomorrow. All N.C.O’s in BR#8, 9 & 1. Took shower |
| 20 | Cold windy day as well as last few days. 25 st |
| 21 | Rec’d letter from Maxine. Lots of mail in. Did washing. Good day for drying clothes. Wrote letters. |
| 22 | Fair day. Roll call mix up again. Identity roll call at midnight. Two P.O.W.’s captured trying to escape. |
| 23 | Very fine spring day. Koch moves in. Rumors of moving this camp. New P.O.W.’s arrive. No more interrogation center. |
| 24 | Another very nice day. Big allied crossing of Rhine. More P.O.W. arrive. Lots of airplanes. Equipment & Political Prisoners going to Peninsula. |
| 25 | Very fine day. Did washing. Went to church. Palm Sunday. Very good breakfast of Choa. Barley & Oats. Went to New Jersey Meeting. |
| 26 | Nice day but worse in afternoon. Red Cross parcels in. Fritz Hermann & Noise go to front. Went to Church. |
| 27 | Red Cross Issue & Ration. More in Barth & on way here. Inside roll call. |
| 28 | I went on weeks K.P. New P.O.W.’s arrive. More Red Cross in. 1/4 issue. |
| 29 | Nice day. Coal ration cut again. |
| 30 | Good Friday. Germans disintegrating on West front. Danzig & Gyonia fall. Air raid. |
| 31 | Jest makes big cake. Lasky wins plague. Plenty of Red Cross. 76,000 parcels in. |
| April 1 | Easter Sunday. Went to church. Very fine dinner. Nasty day outside. Flying officer Way dies from Cerebral Hemorrhage. Rm. 5&6 have very fine table. Col Hankev comes back from Berlin. Red Cross from Lubeck by truck. |
| 2 | Time moved 1 hour. Rainy day. |
| 3 | Sick all day. Rain. Last day of K.P. Max Schmeling visits camp. 3 more cars Red Cross arrive. New Compound Officer. Hauptman Krag. |
| 4 | Took shower. Feeling better today. |
| 5 | Made pan. 2 Men now working on library staff. Per day. |
| 6 | Took shower. Played softball. |
| 7 | Very fine day. Air raid. War looks like it will be over soon. |
| 8 | Clark sick. Very good dinner. Didn’t go to church. |
| 9 | Clean up week, to meet the Allies. G.I’d room. Washed shirt & pants. Clark still sick. |
| 10 | Protecting Power visits camp. Very fine day. |
| 11 | Another nice day. Made pan. |
| 12 | Nice day. Windy. Cans not to be cut up. Russian & French P.O.W’s arrive. Storage shed space opened up. Allowed to go to latrine during air raid. Americans about 130 mi. away. Near Magdeburg. Rec’d letter L. Bork. |
| 13 | Rec’d news Pres. Roosevelt died. Americans now 110 mi away. Air raid. Cloudy day. Shutters now open at night. At night RAF bombs Politz. |
| 14 | Air raid. Lots of airplane activity at airport. P.O.W’s Wittenberg arrive. |
| 15 | Went to church. Memorial service for President. Big Personal Inspection.? |
| 16 | Did washing. Rec’d post card from ma. Russians on offensive again. Air raid again, getting to be quite monotonous. Almost every day and night. Making dessert pans. No lights at night. |
| 17 | Warmest day of year so far. All–Star softball game North 2 & West compound. 1—1 tie. Identity roll call. Water on & off during day. |
| 20 | Awakened by big artillery barrage. 2 Air raids in afternoon. |
| 19 | Much plane activity. Saw jets. Ruhr Pocket 4 F/M model fall. Russians 8-10 miles from Berlin. |
| 21–28 | Went on K.P. on 25th. Heinrich Himmler & Staff arrive on 27th. Very much plane activity and air raids. On 27th, 9 air raids during night & morning. Russ. & Am. link up on 26th. Fighting in Berlin. Mussulini captured. Russ. start off |
| 29 | Germans take pictures in compound. F.W190 explodes over airport. Himmler offers to surrender to Am. & Brit. Russians at Anklam 48 miles from Barth. Berlin almost finished. Germans collapse on all fronts. Himmler leaves camp. |
| 30 | German’s blow up flak school, equipment, and airport. Lots of air activity. We build slit trenches. Musolini & staff assassinated. Himmler reported at Zingsi. 1/2 of guards deserted during night. Guards stealing red cross parcels. We get uncensored mail & Parcels. Germans deserting area. |
| May 1 | Americans take over compound at 10:00 p.m. April 30th. No Germans in camp. Russians arrive at 10:20 pm during hit parade playing of “Chloe”. At 10:30 BBC announces death of Hitler. No 1 on hit parade “Don’t Fence Me In,” played immediately after announcement. “This is an historic moment for which 10000 AM. & Brit. have been waiting. The stranded parachutists have at last linked up with allied forces.” Col Zemke has lunch with Major Steinauer. Library closes up. We hear BBC for first time. Major Von Mustler & few other Germans taken prisoner. Col. Spicer released from cooler after spending 6 mo exactly in solitary. My last day |
| 2 | Get prepared to move out and march to Rostok at 6pm. Wreck towers & Buildings & Fences. Go down to Bay and see 3 women & two children shot through left eye and head. Go to Flak school and get souvenirs. Place pretty well blown up and ransacked. Went ot Barth and saw Russian tanks & forces go through on way south. Ransacked jewelry store. Lots of things brought back to camp – horses, bicycles, autos, guns, vodka, knives, clothes, boots, etc. Order to move out rescinded. In one store saw German dead or dying. |
| 3 | Restricted to Peninsula. 5 Americans shot or killed by Russians or mines. Place under Russian martial law. Get word that we |
| 4 | No more news about moving. Walked out to peninsula for exercise. 5 more Americans killed at Zingst. Lots of fish being caught. |
| 5 | Left camp at night. Spent night near flak school in German home. Had strawberries. Mead, Army, Dick, Koch, & Winkle walking to Wismer. Many others leaving too. |
| 6 | Got up in morning and had coffee cake for breakfast. Went to refugee camp and bought pair of flying boots. Went to French camp and then returned to peninsula. Arrested by MP’s and spent 6–7 hrs in cooler. Maj. Jackson & Dillingham confiscated equipment and put everyone in a brace & took food away. They acted worst than huns. |
| 7 | Went to show Russians put on in South Compound. Very good dancing, singing, etc. English Lt. Col. in camp to arrange for our return home. Jr. Officer Club being set |