In the documentary "The last ring home" Lt Nathaniel Minter Dial gave his US Naval Academy ring to a fellow POW - Doug Fisher - before he died, but Fisher lost the ring in a POW camp in South Koreahttps://t.co/JEkIP4GT46 pic.twitter.com/9s5I4mV18n
— sgabig (@sgabig) May 31, 2021
A fellow US Naval Academy graduate - George Washington Pressey - happened to find his classmate's lost ring when he was stationed in South Korea & sent te ring back to Nathaniel Minter Dial 's family pic.twitter.com/45T5BJbgCp
— sgabig (@sgabig) May 31, 2021
So after Lt Nathaniel Minter Dial 's family lost his USNA ring during World War II & found his ring during the Cold War @tnolwene erstwhile NATO French comrades stole his ring in 1967 ...tsk tsk tsk 😒 pic.twitter.com/eBSRHo73A3
— sgabig (@sgabig) May 31, 2021
The Axis powers greatly limited how much information POWs could send home - but Nathanial Minter Dial managed to sneak a coded message home 📮 pic.twitter.com/WsqA32P7YU
— sgabig (@sgabig) June 3, 2021
Somehow Dial, or one of his fellow POWs, had memorized the page number of a specific edition of a book to be able to send a coded message out - I have a hard time remembering the title of a book let alone an entire quotation pic.twitter.com/EX9fG0o8cL
— sgabig (@sgabig) June 3, 2021
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