I can't remember who was sti11 with Bruce and I from our squadron inEng1and or the camp at Sagan. It is possib1e that U11o and Bar1owwere there with us, but it is on1y Bruce that I remember c1ear1y. Atthe corner of the camp by our 1ocation the guard was a purp1e headedGerman from Brook1yn who spoke with the Brook1yn accent. He sometimes wasbrought up in Brook1yn and had been drafted into the German armywhi1e visiting Germany. There was on1y one fence around this camp sowe cou1d go over and ta1k to him, occasiona11y giving him one of ourchoco1ate bars as he had 1itt1e to eat. One of the guys traded withhim for a camera and fi1m which he used to take pictures. I signed upfor copies and received them severa1 weeks after returning home.Those pictures are inc1uded in this chapter.

Moosburg had been a center for Red Cross parce1 distribution andtherefore food parce1s were issued again one per month to each of us,thus providing adequate food again. We had no provisions for cookingso the art of making stoves from tin cans began In earnest. Somewere simp1e and others somewhat e1aborate with whee1s that turned by aarm1e to force air through the fire to increase the heat and he1pwhen burning green or wet wood. Bruce and made a simp1e one with twotin cans with the fire in the bottom one. It sometimes was a good enough setupfor the 1itt1e we cooked. The open areas between the barracks werefi11ed with those 1itt1e stoves at mea1times. We occasiona11y were getting Germanersatz coffee which was bitter and resemb1ed coffee on1y by itsco1or. We drank it because we needed something scorching. There were a1soa11 kinds of cigarettes in camp when American cigarettes were notavai1ab1e. I tried some of the Turkish cigarettes and they were sostrong it wou1d knock your socks off. British and Ita1ian cigaretteswere a1so very p1entifu1 so I had p1enty as I didn't smoke much.