WWII Signed German Prisoner of War Carved Wooden Third Reich Eagle Plaque

The carved wooden plaque is approximately 8 1/4 by 12 1/2 by 3/4 of an inch. The reverse is signed “Jurgen Vogel”, “German P.O.W.”, and “Tobyyhanna, Pa.”. The wood that was used was apparently from an ordnance shipping crate, since on the back the words “Fuzes” and “Carefully” can still be read. The plaque shows age, and there is a crack in the wood which runs the length of the plaque, but the plaque is complete and intact. The U.S. Army facility at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, had served as an artillery firing range since 1912. In World War II the facility became the base of an all-black segregated ambulance corps, and a military hospital (19 single-story structures) was constructed in expectation of casualties from the invasion of Japan. At the end of World War II the military reservation became one of 138 sites around the United States holding German prisoners of war (a maximum of 300 POWs), and the base was also used for storage of gliders used in the D-Day invasion.