Special Thanks to Fred for sharing this information!!!!!!  History Information PER FAMILY: As you can tell by Willi’s(Wilhelm) uniform here, he was in the Luftwaffe, and the story my father told me was Willi was gunner on a bomber. The bomber was shot down over enemy territory, and Willi was taken prisoner and sent to your POW camp, Fort Lewis. 

Willi’s son Gerd Engelhardt is still alive and lives in Furth Germany, with his wife Ursula. I will provide his email. 

Gerd told me that Willi had “no bad stories” of his stay at Fort Lewis. Gerd said Willi was “very disappointed when he was returned to Europe, he was not sent directly to Germany, he was sent to England where he stayed until 1948. 

The first picture postcard I sent you of Willi was sent to my grandfather Leo Nahr, who was his brother in law at the time…Leo married Willi’s sister. My father Fred(given name was Lothar) Nahr gave me this postcard, before his death in 2002.

thank you for  mailing the memories of my father Willi. He was PoW in the State of Washington . He told us no bad stories from the time he was there. But he was very disappointed that when they were  shipped to Europe they landed not in Germany , but inEngland . There the prisoners stayed until 1948. 

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