I, Peter M Schantz, was in the 793rd MP Bn Company B in 1943 in Camp Maxey, Texas. After basic training we were sent to Louisiana and Texas to guard the German POWs in the rice, sugar cane and potato fields. I was stationed in Lake Charles, LA October of 1943. The prisoners we had fought in African campaign under Rommel. I had a group of fifteen I accompanied/guarded on the farmer's truck, driven by the farmer, to his rice fields. When the harvest was over in November; he invited them for the Thanksgiving meal.. When the food was laid out on the tables, the POWs cried. They knew their families in Germany were starving. The Army supply truck would drive into the compound and deliver the food which the prisoners unloaded. What was left was our meal... There was plenty of beef, bread and vegetables. They had a better better food than we did. There were roughly 250 prisoners in the camp. The MP detachment numbered thirty.. The POWs told us they were sorry. we were going over seas to fight in the war while they would be in the U.S. with plenty to eat. In 1994 my spouse and I went to the 50th anniversary of D-Day. I met a German SST Trooper , who was wounded and captured on the Red Ball Highway in Normandy. He told me that he was sent to the USA to be imprisoned. He said he learned to eat peanut butter and oatmeal. At the time we visited in Germany,. Hr still had it for breakfast every morning. He had films of the invasion from Germany, USA, France and England. There marked differences in how the invasion was portrayed. I have met several German war veterans while traveling in Germany. Peter M Schantz PO Box 1962 San Leandro, CA 94577