Show Ogden Lieutenant Tells of Life In Nazi Prison Camp Ca p The German food is terrible but American prisoners of war receive practically the same type of treat treat- tr treatment at- at ment as the nazis give their own soldiers said Lieutenant Glen M. M I. I Herrington who is the first Utah man to be returned to the United States from a German prison camp campin I in exchange for German prisoner prisoners Lieutenant Herrington left Salt Lake City Saturday morning for a brief visit with his mother Mrs J. J M M. Herrington in Ogden after visiting friends and relatives in inI I Salt Lake City While in Salt Lake I City he became acquainted with his old month nephew Marshall I Carey son of Mr and Mrs George W. W Carey Fifth Eat Ea street I Lieutenant Herrington suffered the loss of his right leg les above the I knee after gas gangrene had set in following wounds received in an anaid anaid anaid aid raid over St. St Nazaire France The plane on which he was navi navi- navigator I gator was shot down in that raid and Lieutenant Herrington wound wounded ed in the leg les by flak parachuted I to safety landing in in the water about yards from shore He was rescued by two German sol sol- soldiers soldiers sol sol- soldiers diers and given first aid He was I taken Jo 0 a hospital where the am am- amputation amputation amputation took place and nd later in interned in- in interned interned in a prison camp near Ber Ber- lin Only three of the airmen aboard his ship were saved sand he said He left Germany October 17 with British and American prison prison- prisoners ers and later flew to Washington D. D C. C where he lie was taken to the Walter Valter Reed general hospital He received a leave to come to Ogden I and Salt Lake City until December I 1 I when he will report back to the th hospital where he lie will be given an I artificial leg A graduate of Ogden Osden high school and the Weber junior college he entered the service in 1941 serving with a medical unit transferring to the air force to take navigator training in October 1941 He left for overseas duty in October 1942 and was on his fifth mission when he was shot down He wears the air medal and purple heart |