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Volume 8, Issue 22 - Feature #1885

WWII POW Camp - Okemah, OK...

I, too, was born in Okemah. 1938. I remember seeing German prisoners, not at the Pecan Bowl, but at what was later the National Guard Armory. I was them in the Armory yard, which had a high wire fence. I don't think prisoners built the Pecan Bowl.It was built by the WPA during the Depression. It's an impressive piece of work.

Gene Franks - 2016-11-05 20:33:16

WWII POW Camp - Okemah, OK Stephen I too was born in Okemah in 1936. I remember walking by ( I believe it was called the Pecan bowl ) and the prisoners waving at us. My grandparents lived North of it and left just before the road curved. We were only there for two week vacations in the summer. We went to a rodeo in the Pecan bowl. Seems like some movie personality was there. Are you related to Raymond, Glen and Pac Ryker. Helen Ryker, Glen's widow is a distant relative on my Morphis side. I saw her a few weeks ago. I would like to see some pictures of the Pecan bowl. I didn't realize that the prisoners built wall there.

Dolores Frimel - 2009-07-18 01:45:27

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