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Title	A Wartime Log
Image Rights	Digital image © 2008, Tennessee State Library & Archives. All rights reserved.
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Subjects - TGM	Lions
Subjects - LCSH	World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe; Prisoners of war; Diaries
Description	This is the cover of Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr.'s diary during his incarceration as a prisoner of war at the Stalag Luft III camp in Zagan, Poland, during World War II.
Place	Zagan (Poland)
Date	1944-1945
Historical note	Mitchener was shot down during World War II after a bombing mission in Germany and was sent to the POW camp Stalag Luft III. Blank journals were given to soldiers through the War Prisoners Aid of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1939, the World's Committee of the YMCA, which was headquartered in Geneva, established the War Prisoners Aid so that the recreational, educational, and spiritual needs of prisoners could be met. The International Red Cross Committee provided books for POWs.
Creator	Mitchener, Hardy A., 1919-1957
Collection name	Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr. Journal, 1944-1945
Accession #	THS 760
Owning Institution	Tennessee Historical Society
ID #	33554
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Digital type	IMAGE
Digital format	TIFF