Stalag Luft IV

Stalag Luft IV
Groß Tychow (Tychowo), Pomerania
Stalag Luft IV monument
Site information
TypePrisoner-of-war camp
Controlled by Nazi Germany
Location
Stalag Luft IV
Groß Tychow, Germany (pre-war borders, 1937)
Stalag Luft IV
Stalag Luft IV (Poland)
Coordinates53°56′33″N 16°10′34″E / 53.9425°N 16.1761°E / 53.9425; 16.1761
Site history
In use1944–1945
Battles/warsWorld War II
Garrison information
Occupantsmainly American Air Force NCOs, and also British, Canadian, Polish, Australian, New Zealand and other Allied POWs

Stalag Luft IV was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Gross Tychow, Pomerania (now Tychowo, Poland). It housed mostly American POWs, but also Britons, Canadians, Poles, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Czechs, Frenchmen and a Norwegian.

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