44. Lewis H. Carlson, We Were Each Other’s Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 22.

45. Reiss, “Solidarity,” 539.

46. Storm, Camp Florence Days, 63.

47. Ibid., 73–74.

5. Camp Florence

1. Lewis H. Carlson, We Were Each Other’s Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 23.

2. Gwyneth Moore interview, June 10, 2013.

3. Barbara Brooks Tomblin, G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003), 196.

4. Barbara Heisler Schmitter, “Returning to America: German Prisoners of War and the American Experience,” German Studies Review 31, no. 3 (October 2008): 540.

5. Matthias Reiss, “Solidarity Among ‘Fellow Sufferers’: African Americans and German Prisoners of War in the United States During World War II,” Journal of African-American History 98, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 550.

6. Ibid., 545.

7. Arnold Krammer, Nazi Prisoners of War in America (New York: Stein & Day, 1979), 92–93.

8. Reiss, “Solidarity,” 539.

9. Ibid., 540.

10. Ibid., 540.

11. “Attitudes of Whites Toward Sharing Facilities with Negroes,” Research Branch, Special Service, Division of Services of Supply, War Department, July 30, 1942, Library of Congress, NAACP General File, Box A650, Folder 1.

12. Ralph A. Storm, Camp Florence Days (Eau Claire, Wisconsin: ECPrinting, 2006), 34.

14. Dorothy Cook Jenkins interview with Alexis Clark, April 16, 2014 and November 6, 2014; “Dorothy Margaret Cook Jenkins,” The Veterans History Project, The Library of Congress, October 26, 2011, memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.32011/.

15. Anonymous letter to Mabel Staupers, Camp Papago Park, August 1, 1944, Moorland-Spingarn Collection, Howard University.

16. Oneida Stuart interview, Veterans History Project, September 15, 1992.

17. Matthias Reiss interview, October 8, 2012.

18. Steve Hoza, PW: First-Person Accounts of German Prisoners of War in Arizona (Phoenix, AZ: E6B Publications, 1995), 59.

19. Ibid.

20. Julian Hartt, “Desert Town Protests ‘Coddling’ Nazi Prisoners,” Atlanta Constitution, March 12, 1945, 3.

21. Ibid.

22. “Report of Inspection by Major D.L. Schwieger and Captain Robert W. Mess (Office of the Provost Marshal General) of Prisoner of War Camp, Florence, and PW Branch Camps Mt. Graham and Safford, Arizona,” July 10, 1945, National Archives, College Park, MD.

23. Chris Albert interview, May 8, 2012.

24. Richard S. Sears, V-Discs: A History and Discography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980).

25. Chris Albert interview. May 8, 2012.

26. Alexis Clark, “A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely World War II Romance,” New York Times, May 15, 2013, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/a-black-nurse-a-german-soldier-and-an-unlikely-wwii-romance.

27. Tomblin, G.I. Nightingales, 196.

28. Chris Albert interview, May 8, 2012.

6. A Forbidden Romance

1. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014.

2. Gwyneth Moore interview, July 12, 2013.

3. “100-Year-Old Recalls Life as WWII Army Nurse,” Wounded Times, February 26, 2011. www.combatptsdwoundedtimes.org/2011/02/100-year-old-recalls-life-as-wwii-army.html

4. Barbara Brooks Tomblin, G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996), 195.

5. Gwyneth Moore interview, June 10, 2013.

6. Dina Felton interview, April 7, 2013.

7. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014.

8. Kristina Brandner email to Alexis Clark, November 1, 2014.

9. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014.

7. End of War

1. Chris Albert interview, June 29, 2012.

2. Steve Hoza, PW: First-Person Accounts of German Prisoners of War in Arizona (Phoenix: E68 Publications, 1995), 18.

3. Albert Deutsch, “Bias Bars Needed Nurses from Bedsides of Wounded,” PM, December 26, 1944.

4. “Army Still Is Balky On Using Negro Nurses” NAACP General File, Box A648, Folder 1 Medical Corps, Library of Congress.