Vanishing Voices: The Impact of Life Behind the Barbed Wire on World War II Prisoners of War

This dissertation is an exploration into the lived experiences and interconnectedness of World War II prisoners of war (POWs). It is driven by the personal accounts of four men who experienced life on the wrong side of the barbed wire: my father, the late William Austin Burgess, formerly of Hinesville, Georgia; C. Neill Baylor, of Vidalia, Georgia; Herman Cranman, of Savannah, Georgia; and Robert Waldrop, of Beaufort, South Carolina. The impetus for this exploration began with the stories I received as a child when my father would share his wartime military experiences with me and continues with the learning of pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences. The story purposefully has no end. The experiences of these men are meant to live on, not vanish with them.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Year dc:date.available

2008

Author dc:creator

• Burgess, James Reginald

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ming Fang He
• William Reynolds
• Tom McMullen

• ETD
• World War II
• Kriegie
• Hell on wheels
• Swing
• Barbed wire
• Georgia boys
• Prisoner of war
• Prisoners of war
• United States
• Personal narratives
• World War
• 1939-1945

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/466

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1466