Stalag Luft IV

Stalag Luft IV
Groß Tychow (Tychowo), Pomerania
Stalag Luft IV monument
Stalag Luft IV is located in Germany
Stalag Luft IV
Stalag Luft IV
Stalag Luft IV is located in Poland
Stalag Luft IV
Stalag Luft IV
Coordinates53°56′33″N 16°10′34″E / 53.9425°N 16.1761°E / 53.9425; 16.1761
TypePrisoner-of-war camp
Site information
Controlled by Nazi Germany
Site history
In use1944–1945
Battles/warsWorld War II
Garrison information
Occupantsmainly 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.