A major Hollywood motion picture will start filming late this summer on the U-505 crew's internment at Camp Ruston, Louisiana. The film is actually about Gene Moore, a young baseball prodigy drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers whose career was interrupted by Pearl Harbor and WWII. He ended up on a Navy baseball team entertaining the troops prior to D-Day. Once the European battles started
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I'm researching Camp Ruston, the POW camp that held the U-505 crew. Although I know a great deal about the camp, I have lots of U-boat questions. Let me start with this one. Any help is appreciated. Helmut Gugger was supposedly a Swiss national who ended up on a U-boat crew. He was part of the infamous escape of 25 U-boat prisoners at Papago Park, Arizona. Once he 'cooperated&
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