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WWII Item - Ruston Style...
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:27 pm
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:27 pm
Christmas Menus are common item. Mostly by units back home, Bases, Hospitals and Naval Ships.. Specific units, divisions and infantry style combat units rarely were able to have any printing done. Nor were printing readily available to your dog faces while overseas.
I don't have much info on this or Camp Ruston.. I bough this piece on Ebay, and spent a little more than I should have. But POW's camps in the US and especially in Oklahoma, Louisiana or Texas receive special interest.
I don't have much info on this or Camp Ruston.. I bough this piece on Ebay, and spent a little more than I should have. But POW's camps in the US and especially in Oklahoma, Louisiana or Texas receive special interest.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 8:29 pm
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Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:37 pm to WWII Collector
That's really cool. The camp site is located close to Grambling just west of Ruston. There isn't much left of it now. I had a professor in college, Dr. Terry Jones, who said his dad was in Germany one time and a German guy spoke to him in English with a heavy country draw. He asked him where he learned English and he told him he learned it as a POW in Camp Ruston. Pretty cool story.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:43 pm to WWII Collector
I studied that closely and found that there wasn't a Braxton the be found in the bunch.
Those boys no doubt won a world war, but they'd never make it in travel ball.
Those boys no doubt won a world war, but they'd never make it in travel ball.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:44 pm to WWII Collector
Most of the prisoners there at that time would have been from the Arika Krorps. The North African campaign had ended about six months before this.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:56 pm to LegendInMyMind
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I studied that closely and found that there wasn't a Braxton the be found in the bunch.
Not a one... But a quick find a grave reveals
Capt McCollum is buried in GA. While Private Nathan Niffenegger is buried in Wisconsin.
Imagine.. You live in Wisconsin... Summers are nice and cool and then you get drafted. Expecting to be shipped overseas, only to spend the War in Louisiana endless summers.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 9:16 pm to WWII Collector
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Imagine.. You live in Wisconsin... Summers are nice and cool and then you get drafted. Expecting to be shipped overseas, only to spend the War in Louisiana endless summers.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 9:11 am to PacoPicopiedra
Umm, I’m sure most were very grateful to NOT be in harms way & to enjoy mild winters
Posted on 10/8/25 at 10:10 am to NoBoDawg
Morgan Peoples talked about it at Tech in the 80s. There's a few barracks still standing
Posted on 10/8/25 at 10:14 am to WWII Collector
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Niffenegger
Tap the brakes, my dude
Posted on 10/8/25 at 10:43 am to adavis
you went to NLU/ULM?
had Prof Jones remember him telling that story.
had Prof Jones remember him telling that story.
Posted on 10/8/25 at 10:51 am to WWII Collector
Not a bad Christmas dinner. I wonder what the kraut POWs got.
For Christmas 1943 my grandfather was in the USAAF in Cairo. He said they often had beef but he was pretty sure it was actually horse.
For Christmas 1943 my grandfather was in the USAAF in Cairo. He said they often had beef but he was pretty sure it was actually horse.
This post was edited on 10/8/25 at 11:12 am
Posted on 10/11/25 at 3:41 pm to bootyswamper
Yeah, had him for several classes at ULM
Posted on 10/11/25 at 4:52 pm to adavis
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Dr. Terry Jones
I’ve heard he’s a legit professor
Edit: I think it’s him somebody told me once had a big thing for Lil Kim
This post was edited on 10/11/25 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 10/11/25 at 4:57 pm to WWII Collector
Cool item. I think there is an LPB program about Camp Ruston.
Looks like Youtbe has an episode of Lost Louisiana that features it.
Looks like Youtbe has an episode of Lost Louisiana that features it.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 5:50 pm to adavis
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German guy spoke to him in English with a heavy country draw
Thats so awesome. Ive heard so many stories of how well POWs were treated in america
Posted on 10/11/25 at 6:05 pm to WWII Collector
Pretty cool. My grandfather grew up out in Simsboro not far from camp Ruston. He would have appreciated this.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 6:33 pm to WWII Collector
If the German soldiers had known how well they would be treated as an American POW, they would have all surrendered en masse at the sight of the first American soldier.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 7:36 pm to WWII Collector
quote:Uhh yeah... I have never felt heat like I did when I first got to State. Hell, I had never seen it rain so hard & be so damn humid at 11pm until I drove down to visit the campus in late June.
Imagine.. You live in Wisconsin... Summers are nice and cool and then you get drafted.
There are plenty of places in the upper Midwest where A/C was not needed. We had the Great Lakes for natural A/C coupled with a fan. Nathan likely grew up working on the family farm not knowing the feel of artifical A/C. The only exception to all of this is if he was from western WI. The humidity and mosquitoes in Minnesota make summer life miserable.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 7:44 pm to Lou Loomis
quote:That was essentially the final days of WWII. A free for all of who could get to the western allies ahead of the Soviets.
If the German soldiers had known how well they would be treated as an American POW, they would have all surrendered en masse at the sight of the first American soldier.
I read the menu thinking it was for the POWs until I saw the roll call. The US and Canada treated POWs immaculately compared to our European allies which was so much better than the Axis. From the other side, I can not even imagine the German POW guards having a meal this nice.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 8:35 pm to WWII Collector
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
This post was edited on 10/12/25 at 8:16 am
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