McCurdy, Richard

"Cpl. Richard McCurdy, Liberated, Reaches Home"
First serviceman in eastern Crawford County to return from a German prisoner-of-war camp, Corporal Technician Richard G. McCurdy, 24, arrived at his home in T?roy Township Monday. Liberated from Stalog 3-C near Kuestrin by the Russians on January 31, he reports that he was not mistreated by the Germans except for a near-starvation diet on which his captors kept their prisoners scraps of bread, thin soup and ersatz coffee. The Troy Township paratrooper has great praise for the American Red Cross, statint that the Red Cross food parcels were 'life savers." A medic in the 82nd Airborne Division, he landed in a Norman field on D-Day and was taken prisoner on the morning of June 8. Corporal McCurdy learned when he telephoned home Saturday that his father died last December 23. He is to report at the rest center at Asheville, N.C. in June.
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