Tag: prisoners of war

  • American POW registration cards

    On May 29, 1942, the S.S. Stanvac Calcutta, an American custom-built tanker owned by the Socony Vacuum Company, steamed out of Montevideo, Uruguay bound for Caripito, Venezuela. Eight days later on June 6, while the ship was 500 miles off the Brazilian coast east of Recife, a German commerce raider, the Stier, attacked the tanker…