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  2. Red Cross parcel - Wikipedia

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    Red Cross parcel refers to packages containing mostly food, tobacco and personal hygiene items sent by the International Association of the Red Cross to prisoners of war (POWs) during the First and Second World Wars, [1] as well as at other times. It can also refer to medical parcels and so-called "release parcels" provided during the Second ...

  3. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United ...

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    Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...

  4. International Committee of the Red Cross archives - Wikipedia

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    The archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are based in Geneva and were founded in 1863 at the time of the ICRC's inception. [1] It has the dual function to manage both current records and historical archives. [2] The general historical archives are openly accessible to the general public up to 1975. [1]

  5. Prisoners of war in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .

  6. World War Adjusted Compensation Act - Wikipedia

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    The act awarded veterans additional pay in various forms, with only limited payments available in the short term. The value of each veteran's "credit" was based on each recipient's service in the United States Armed Forces between April 5, 1917, and July 1, 1919, with $1.00 awarded for each day served in the United States and $1.25 for each day served abroad.

  7. A fire destroyed millions of veterans' records. 50 years ...

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    The apocalyptic scene is still burned into Mike Buttery’s memory 50 years later: Black smoke billowing from the top floor of the Military Personnel Records Center; bits of paper wafting through ...