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Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp
Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp

Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp

Date1/27/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sentries are suspicious; Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp. At each corner of the compound is a tower from which a sentry observes a section f the compound.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019135F
Former fighter pilot: Wally Floody, 69, the chief planner of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944, holds a photo taken of himself during his internment
Former fighter pilot: Wally Floody, 69, the chief planner of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944, holds a photo taken of himself during his internment
Faught, Ken
4/30/1987
View of camp site, Nine of 28 Nazi airmen who tunnelled out of a Northern Ontario internment camp last night have been recaptured, Col. Hubert Stethem(...)
View of camp site, Nine of 28 Nazi airmen who tunnelled out of a Northern Ontario internment camp last night have been recaptured, Col. Hubert Stethem(...)
Toronto Star (Firm)
4/19/1941
Each Prisoner is allowed $3 worth of coupons per month to buy ice cream and other refreshments in the canteen of the internment camp at Camp Chaffee, Ark
Each Prisoner is allowed $3 worth of coupons per month to buy ice cream and other refreshments in the canteen of the internment camp at Camp Chaffee, Ark
Toronto Star (Firm)
1/14/1943
Former spitfire pilot C. Wallace Floody, who was shot down in 1941, holds picture of himself taken in a German war-prisoner camp
Former spitfire pilot C. Wallace Floody, who was shot down in 1941, holds picture of himself taken in a German war-prisoner camp
Bezant, Graham
5/7/1975
John W. Morrill, left, made his escape from Corregidor in a small boat and 31 days later reached Australia
John W. Morrill, left, made his escape from Corregidor in a small boat and 31 days later reached Australia
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/22/1943
Picture at upper right shows the good old-fashioned way of escape by trying to unknot a barbed wire entanglement
Picture at upper right shows the good old-fashioned way of escape by trying to unknot a barbed wire entanglement
Powley, Gordon W.
1/10/1942
Born in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, these four Toronto teenagers look at the official record of the prison camp held in David Goldsilver, vice-p(...)
Born in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, these four Toronto teenagers look at the official record of the prison camp held in David Goldsilver, vice-p(...)
Darrell, Dick
4/27/1965
Thousands of German 'teen-agers, such as these young Nazis who surrendered to the Allies, who were taken during 1945 from their homes in the Soviet oc(...)
Thousands of German 'teen-agers, such as these young Nazis who surrendered to the Allies, who were taken during 1945 from their homes in the Soviet oc(...)
Toronto Star (Firm)
8/12/1946
Barbed wire and floodlights bar the way to, Here is the Northern Ontario prison camp from which Lieut
Barbed wire and floodlights bar the way to, Here is the Northern Ontario prison camp from which Lieut
Toronto Star (Firm)
8/21/1940
Camp Horros recalled
Camp Horros recalled
Philp, Barry
4/3/1964
A German internee cuts the hair of a fellow prisoner in the camp barber shop
A German internee cuts the hair of a fellow prisoner in the camp barber shop
Toronto Star (Firm)
6/21/1941
Honeymooning in Vancouver five years after they were married in a Japanese prison camp are U
Honeymooning in Vancouver five years after they were married in a Japanese prison camp are U
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/1/1946