Name: James L Jarratt
First Name(s): James L
Last Name: Jarratt
Place of birth: Texas, Ellis Cnty, Italy
Rank: Tec5 Driver
ASN: 38095124
Company: B Troop
Unit: 87th Cavlry Recon Sqdrn 7th AD
Reported as: POW ► DNB
Date of incident: 22-12-1944
Place of incident: Sankt Vith area
His story: Tec5 James Lewis Jarratt was taken POW on December 22, 1944 and finally ended up in Stalag VIII-A, Görlitz, Landkreis Görlitz, Sachsen, Germany.
Due to the advancing Russian troops, on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1945 he had to headed west together with sixteen hundred American soldiers.
They arrived at the town of Duderstadt and were imprisoned in the ‘Brick Factory’ camp. This was not an official ‘Stammlager’ (Prisoner of War Camp), but just a point where the Germans had decided to accumulate several thousand prisoners.
It was here that Tec5 Jarratt found his death on April 2, 1945.
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