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German soldiers once built houses and picked fruit in Lake County. During World War II, the area fronting U.S. Highway 441 and in front of the Lake-Sumter State College Learning Center served as a prisoner-of-war camp for German soldiers and pilots. The quarters had been the temporary home of the 313th Air Corps Fighter Squadron, while they trained for the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, across the street at the U.S. Army Air Base — now Leesburg International Airport. The first batch of prisoners — about 250 from Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's elite Afrika Korps — arrived in March 1944.
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This was on
The Daily Commercial Facebook page and I thought some people on TOTV would enjoy seeing it. I have always been a history buff getting my 2nd BA in History. And writing historically themed papers for the U of MN Law School on the Antarctic Treaty and enforcing it as well as another on loopholes MN lawyers found in the Prohibition Laws.
I believe there is a small dog park in that area where the Rommel troops might have been in 1944 till until they shut it down.