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40 former POWs return
to camp to attend Mass
UMBARGER (AP) — After leav
ing this country as prisoners of
World War II more than 40 years
ago, a group of Italian soldiers inter
ned at a nearby POW camp were
welcomed as friends to a Mass cele
brated here Sunday in honor of
their dead comrades.
As part of a visit to the area where
they once were held captive, the for
mer POWs celebrated Mass in a
church their fellow prisoners deco
rated during their internment with
painted wall murals.
“The work that is in this church
has been such a constant presence to
us that when we see it we think of
you with love,” the Rev. Richard
Sonderman of St. Mary’s Catholic
Church told the group.
Cameras flashed and video cam
eras recorded the paintings as the
group of about 40 ex-POWs and
their families viewed the handiwork
of nine of their comrades, who vol
unteered in 1945 to decorate the in
terior of the small stucco church.
Only two of the artists who were
brought daily from the POW camp
at Hereford, 10 miles to the south
west, to work at the church still are
living, and only one of those made
the journey, retired Brig. Gen.
Franco Di Bello.
“My soul is overwhelmed with
emotion in coming here today,” Di
Bello said.
A resident of Pordenone, Italy, Di
Bello described to parishioners,
some of whom he has corresponded
with for x ears after forging
friendships in the 1940s, how the
walls of their church came to be dec
orated with pastel-toned paintings of
religious symbols and geometric de
signs.
A 23-year-old lieutenant at the
time of his capture by Allied forces
in Tunisia in 1943, Di Bello was one
of about 6,000 soldiers held at the
Hereford camp from 1944 to 1946.
mired artwork done by the
prisoners, he arranged lor Di |
and the others to design and p
the murals.
The Italians agreed to do:
work on condition that they n
paid and that U.S. officials m. j
stood that they were not coopera,
with the government.
I he |>i inc ipal artist, Dino
betti, is in poor health andcou j
make the journey to see ho"
work has withstood 40 year
Bello said.
Using a book as a copy, C>an
and the others painted theascer; I
of Christ on canvas behind the a.
along with two flanking muraL
soldier executed a woodcarviK|
the front of the communion ta
After the priest at St. Mary’s ad-
On Saturday, the group of ^
ians visited the site of the 7 I
POW camp, dismantled in 19«j
cept for a chapel built by the p ri '
ers in honor of five soldiers pi
died at the camp.
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