Sal Laferla was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942 and trained to be an infantry rifleman. Two weeks after landing in France in June 1944, Laferla was captured by a German patrol. He would spend the next 11 months in a POW camp near the Polish border. Along with 150 privates, he would work in a paper mill and perform other tasks until they were liberated by the Russians in the spring of 1945.
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