will.illinois.edu/prairiefire/segment/pf2008-03-27-e WILL Public Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Series Segment History, Military, World War II, Danville, WILL Custom Prairie Fire Subject Headings Sparky Songer of Danville, Ill., served in the infantry in Europe and was captured by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge. He spent six months in German camps before escaping as the war was winding down and finding his way to American lines, thanks to the help of an English-speaking German guard who was a graduate of the University of Michigan. Songer talks to WILL-TV producer Denise La Grassa about his escape and his experiences in the German camps, where he subsisted almost almost entirely on rutabaga soup. He weighed under 100 pounds when he reached safety. Songer is curator and president of the Vermilion County War Museum. Abstract Magazine PBCore Genre Picklist Is Part Of http://will.illinois.edu/prairiefire/episode/pf2008-03-27 Illinois, Indiana Spatial Intermediate (grades 7-9)|High School (grades 10-12)|Primary (grades 1-6)|College|Post Graduate|General Education|General TV-G Denise La Grassa Producer WILL-TV, University of Illinois Copyright Holder Publisher © 2008 University of Illinois 2008-03-27T20:30:00-06:00 2008-03-27T20:30:00-06:00 video/x-pn-realvideo http://willmedia.will.uiuc.edu/ramgen/pf2008-03-27-e.rv Moving Image RealSystems Real Media 9 28824182 00:09:11 eng pf2008-03-27-e.rv WILL Public Media, University of Illinois 2008-03-27T20:30:00-06:00 2008-03-27T20:30:00-06:00 video/mp4 http://willmedia.atlas.uiuc.edu/mpeg4/pf2008-03-27-e.mp4 Moving Image MPEG video MPEG-4 26118702 00:09:11 eng pf2008-03-27-e.mp4 WILL Public Media, University of Illinois 2008-03-27T20:30:00-06:00 2008-03-27T20:30:00-06:00 video/x-flv http://willmedia.atlas.uiuc.edu/flash/pf2008-03-27-e.flv Moving Image Flash Video Flash Media 8 25258856 00:09:11 eng pf2008-03-27-e.flv WILL Public Media, University of Illinois