Bob Noble of Quincy was a P.O.W. in Germany during World War II. Here is his story:
The 18-year-old kid heard German spoken in the dark and wondered, Hey, who’s fooling around? He poked his head up from his slit trench on a hill in Alsace-Lorraine, a region disputed for centuries, and spied a group of men standing maybe ten yards away. It was hard to make them out, gray figures in the black. More German sounds traversed the cold air and Bob Noble gripped his rifle….
