Dick Lockhart served in the 423rd Infantry Regiment's anti-tank company, part of the 106th Infantry Division, a unit that saw its first action during the Battle of the Bulge. The entire regiment surrendered to the Germans on December 19th, and Lockhart spent the rest of the war in Stalag IX-B during a time when the Germans were unable to adequately care for their POWs. Those American POWs of Jewish descent in Lockhart's camp were sent to a brutal work camp in Eastern Germany..
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Dick Lockhart following his high school graduation from South Side in 1942 with parents William and Mary Lockhart, taken outside the family home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
Fort Wayne, IndianaWhen:
1942Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Private First Class Dick Lockhart, while at Camp Miles Standish, Massachusetts, in October, 1944. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
Camp Miles Standish, MassachusettsWhen:
October, 1944Ownership:
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Private Lockhart with the company that he went overseas with, the Anti-tank Company of the 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division. He appears in the upper left row, second from the left. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
UnknownWhen:
UnknownOwnership:
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A letter Dick Lockhart sent to his father in 1944. This was written in November, 1944, while the unit was in Belgium, prior to Lockhart being taken prisoner. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
UnknownWhen:
November, 1944Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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“106th Infantry’s Casualties High” reported the AP news story just days after Lockhart and roughly 6,700 others were taken prisoner on December 19th, 1944 by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. Where:
Battle of the BulgeWhen:
December 19th, 1944 Ownership:
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The Western Union telegram Dick Lockhart’s mother received from the War Department in January, 1945 announcing that her son was officially ‘missing in action.’ (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
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January, 1945 Ownership:
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PFC Lockhart, on the right, and a friend at Miami Beach during a sixty day furlough in July 1945. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
Miami Beach When:
July 1945Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Dick attended a wedding outside Baltimore during the summer of 1945, just months after his release from Bad Orb. He was still on a 60 day furlough. Pictured are Lockhart, unknown, Gordon Taylor and his fiancé at their wedding. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
outside Baltimore When:
Summer of 1945Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Lighters pull alongside the Queen Elizabeth to unload U.S. troops in Scotland. Between December 1941 and June 1944 the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth transported a large portion of the troops to the U.K., including the 423rd Regiment. Where:
ScotlandWhen:
UnknownOwnership:
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New York Harbor in October, 1945. The 280-odd officers and enlisted men who were with the 106th from activation to deactivation returned, for the most part, on this ship – the Marechal Joffre. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
New York Harbor When:
October, 1945Ownership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain
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A letter sent to Senator Durbin in June, 1999 by the National Archives. The Senator was helping Dick Lockhart get information on his POW experience. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
UnknownWhen:
June, 1999 Ownership:
June, 1999 
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The record for the War Crimes Office, on Dick Lockhart’s abuse by German soldiers while he was a POW, witnessed by Sgt. Vernon Smith Jenkins following Lockhart’s release, on May 30, 1945. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
UnknownWhen:
UnknownOwnership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain
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Dick Lockhart worked the 42nd ward precinct in Chicago for the Adlai Stevenson Presidential Campaign in 1952. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
ChicagoWhen:
1952Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Lockhart with his platoon Sergeant, Glenn Kennedy, taken during Lockhart’s visit to Glenn’s home in Tucson, Arizona in March 1987. ()Where:
Tucson, Arizona When:
March 1987Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Lobbyist Dick Lockhart visits with Illinois Governor Jim Edgar some time in the early 1990s. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
UnknownWhen:
early 1990sOwnership:
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Dick Lockhart visited Berga, Germany circa 2000. Berga was the site of a slave labor camp where Jewish American POWs were sent to after being separated from the rest of the POWs at Bad Orb. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
Berga, Germany When:
circa 2000Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany, as it appeared in July 1954. The POW barracks where Lockhart and other prisoners suffered and starved had been converted to more peaceful uses after the war. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, GermanyWhen:
July 1954Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Lockhart visiting the Henri Chapel U.S. Military Cemetery in Belgium in July 2009. He is standing by the grave of Philip Schwartz, Fort Wayne, Indiana’s South Side High School, class of ’42. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
Henri Chapel U.S. Military Cemetery in Belgium When:
July 2009Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Dick Lockhart’s wartime photo is used for the cover of the Springfield State Journal Register’s Heartland Magazine on May 25, 2001. The magazine’s Memorial Day edition was honoring veterans. Where:
UnknownWhen:
May 25, 2001Ownership:
May be restricted. Patrons desiring to use this photograph should contact the ALPL Audio-Visual Curator
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A wartime areal view of Stalag IX-B at Bad Orb, the camp where Lockhart and others from the 106th Division captured during the Battle of the Bulge were imprisoned. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
Bad OrbWhen:
During the Battle of the Bulge Ownership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain