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Stalag Luft IV | |
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Groß Tychow (Tychowo), Pomerania | |
Coordinates | 53°56′33″N 16°10′34″E / 53.9425°N 16.1761°E |
Type | Prisoner-of-war camp |
Site information | |
Controlled by | Nazi Germany |
Site history | |
In use | 1944–1945 |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Garrison information | |
Occupants | mainly American Air Force NCOs, and also British, Canadian, Polish, Australian, New Zealand and other Allied POWs |
Stalag Luft IV was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Gross Tychow, Pomerania (now Tychowo, Poland). It housed mostly American POWs, but also Britons, Canadians, Poles, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Czechs, Frenchmen and a Norwegian.