Cereal Box Held Hundreds Of Letters From WWII POWs
- 9 years ago
Around 400 letters written by German POW soldiers captured during WWII and sent to prison camps in Tennessee were found in a Corn Flakes cereal box in the 1980s. They have since been donated to Nashville’s Lipscomb University which is translating and digitizing them.
A Corn Flakes cereal box held one Tennessee family’s artifacts from World War II for decades.
An estimated 400 letters were found in the box in the late 1980s by a descendant of one of the area’s two prominent wartime families – the Striblings and the Brocks.
They were written by German prisoners of war who had been captured overseas and shipped off to a prison camp in Tennessee.
During this time, they were sent to perform manual labor on the two
A Corn Flakes cereal box held one Tennessee family’s artifacts from World War II for decades.
An estimated 400 letters were found in the box in the late 1980s by a descendant of one of the area’s two prominent wartime families – the Striblings and the Brocks.
They were written by German prisoners of war who had been captured overseas and shipped off to a prison camp in Tennessee.
During this time, they were sent to perform manual labor on the two