Diary Of Henry Eugene Maul‎ Prisoner Of War.

Influenced and angered by the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, and shortly after graduating Marquette High School in Alton, Illinois, Henry Eugene Maul (Dad), enlisted in the United States Army Air Force. He trained to take on one of the most dangerous positions in the Air Force as a waist gunner. As a member of the 96th Bomb Group and the 338 Bomb Squadron he completed 8 missions before his plane was downed by enemy fire, May 8, 1944, at 1600 hours, causing him and his crew to be captured by German scouts.  Dad's war diary is not the typical day-to-day accounting of time, but a visual drawing-by-drawing, poem-by-poem method. He used the intense solitude of POW life-to create the drawings of his thoughts, his observations, and his fears through symbolism. Within each drawing and each poem is an allegory of what he, his crew and fellow POWS were enduring.  Included in this book are collections of letters from home, photographs, and documents to support dad's writings, as well as formerly classified documents about him and Allied Prisoners of World War II in Germany and how they were treated, by the guards (aka GOONS), their families back home, from starvation to appalling food, loneliness, poor hygiene, and the community the men built. According to one of my dad's former classmates, The Marches were the most difficult ordeals for him to experience. Dad's timeline of one of those marches is included. What my dad brought back from his year as a Prisoner of War.