American POW’s Ring Makes It Home After Desperate World War II Trade - ABC News: When his plane was shot down in 1943, U.S. Army co-pilot David Cox Sr. spent 18 months in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. He and his fellow POWs lacked medical care, and they were cold and starved.
During that time, Cox made a desperate choice. He bartered a gold aviator ring that his parents had given to him when he earned his commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. In exchange for the cherished ring, an Italian POW gave Cox two chocolate bars.
When his camp was liberated and he came home in August 1945, Cox’s parents gave him a replica ring, which, just like the first, had his name and date of birth inscribed, but he never forgot the original, his son, David Cox Jr. said.
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