Bowmanville POW camp
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The Bowmanville POW camp, also known as Camp 30, was a Canada administered POW camp for German soldiers during World War II located on 2020 Lambs Road in the community of Bowmanville, Ontario in Clari
Bowmanville POW camp in 2011
The Boys Training School, circa 1920s
Cafeteria and site of "Battle of Bowmanville", c. 1930
Bowmanville POW camp (2016)
Operation Kiebitz
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Operation Kiebitz was a failed German operation during World War II to organize the escape of four skilled U-boat commanders from a Canadian prisoner of war camp in Bowmanville, Ontario. The subsequen
Bowmanville POW camp
…was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. In 1943, prisoners Otto Kretschmer and Wolfgang Heyda were the subject of an elaborate escape named Operation Kiebitz. The camp was built as the Bowmanville Boys Training School. Two of the early buildings were completed in 1927. Boys were educated there until 1941…
HMCS Rimouski, seen here between 1944 and 1945, was the flagship in the operation that foiled the German escape attempt.