Post by connie on Sept 27, 2009 3:22:42 GMT -5
From POW accounts on the Indiana Military site
www.IndianaMilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Several former POW's mention an ingenious device that some long-timers had rigged up in some camps for cooking. Sgt. T4 Richard C Ferguson's account listed under Stalag IIIA Lukenwald has a good description:
"We were only fed a few times during the week long march to the next camp. One time Hartman and I found some potato peelings on the ground. We were so hungry; we cooked the peelings in our “wind maker”. In the last camp we inherited a wind maker from one of the permanent POW’s The wind maker was constructed from tin cans from Red Cross parcels. One can formed a housing where fins mounted on a spool and driven by a shoelace over a pulley arrangement forced air through a channel to the underside of a can with holes punched in the bottom. The forced air caused a blower condition which only required a few twigs to obtain a real hot fire."
www.IndianaMilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Several former POW's mention an ingenious device that some long-timers had rigged up in some camps for cooking. Sgt. T4 Richard C Ferguson's account listed under Stalag IIIA Lukenwald has a good description:
"We were only fed a few times during the week long march to the next camp. One time Hartman and I found some potato peelings on the ground. We were so hungry; we cooked the peelings in our “wind maker”. In the last camp we inherited a wind maker from one of the permanent POW’s The wind maker was constructed from tin cans from Red Cross parcels. One can formed a housing where fins mounted on a spool and driven by a shoelace over a pulley arrangement forced air through a channel to the underside of a can with holes punched in the bottom. The forced air caused a blower condition which only required a few twigs to obtain a real hot fire."