had other trade experience undertook those tasks, making the ISUS relatively self sufficient. For their labor they received 80 cents per day. The Italians who comprised the ISUS exhibited great appreciation to the Americans for the opportunity to work and for their fair treatment. Following the funeral of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, all Depot employees paid tribute to the great leader by observing three minutes of silence. The Italians were told to sit silently at their desks. Many asked permission to stand at attention to express their sympathy and respect but were refused. Deeply hurt, they never understood how the Americans could feel they were paying proper homage to Roosevelt while remaining seated. Still, the people of Ogden harbored the same harsh antagonism as at first. As American POWS in Europe were enduring inexplicable hardships, Ogden continued to view the Italians as the coddled enemy even though they were now supporting the war against Hitler. THE GERMANS The tonnage handled at the Utah ASF Depot rose from 81,092 tons in April 1944 to 121,976 in June 1944, illustrating its increasing workload. With plans to repatriate the Italians, questions arose about how long the ISU work force would remain large enough to handle the growing burden. With this concern, 1,250 German POWS were transported to the Depot on August 25, 1944 to assume some of the duties of departing Italians. These Germans were as broken as the Italians upon their arrival, having been captured in France and regions of Italy, following the D-day invasion. Captured Germans from the Africa Corps arrived later, still kindling a defiant and belligerent attitude. These internees for the most part chose bread and water with no labor rather than to work. Asa form of intimidation to the cooperative, working POWS, they wore their Nazi uniforms in the compound. To save morale, those uniforms were eventually confiscated and those prisoners given the same set of work clothes as the others. Each article of clothing worn as an outer garment by the prisoners was stamped with the six-inch-high letters "P.W." and the internees did their own alterations and their own laundry. Unaccustomed to an unlimited soap supply, they hoarded it and conserved it. The prisoner of war camp at the Utah ASF Depot was the only camp in the country to work Germans and Italians together. Surprisingly no problems were ever reported, for example, if an Italian lift operator had a German POW crew or vice versa. By July of 1945 only 1,913 Italians remained in the ISUS while 4,900 Germans were interned in Ogden. Of those German POWS, at least 17 different nationalities were represented, including Russian, Turkestans, Uzbeks, Kirghizs, Georgians, Kazkhs, Tartars, Mongols, Rumanians, Letts, Lithuanians, Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Austrians, White Russians and Germans. Although there were occasional attempts at escape, the prisoners' isolation and disorientation left them little hope of success. In addition, war dogs were incorporated to