From left to right: Rear Adm. Axel Ristau, German Military Attaché; Maj. Gen. Trevor Bredenkamp, Commander of the Joint Task Force – National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, and Col. Paolo Scimone, Italian Military Attaché, pose for a picture after a wreath-laying ceremony in honor of the German and Italian prisoners of war buried at the Fort Meade post cemetery on November 19, 2023. Of the over 1,600 German and 58 Italian prisoners that were shipped to Fort Meade in September of 1943, 35 died while in captivity and are interred here. (U.S. Army Photo by Jasmyne Ferber, Fort Meade Public Affairs)
| Date Taken: | 11.19.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 11.21.2023 14:35 |
| Photo ID: | 8134416 |
| VIRIN: | 231119-A-OL973-1355 |
| Resolution: | 6016x4016 |
| Size: | 7.3 MB |
| Location: | MARYLAND, US |
| Web Views: | 43 |
| Downloads: | 2 |
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33 German, 2 Italian POWs honored during annual wreath-laying ceremony at Fort Meade
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