Jack Dower was born 1919, Falmouth, Cornwall, England; the son of John Dower and Ada Maud Spargo. Raised and educated in Hartford, Connecticut, he entered the U.S. Army in June 1943. As a member of “L” Company, 179th Infantry, he saw combat first in North Africa, then at the Battle of Anzio, where he was captured by the Germans, and held as a POW at Stalag IIB, Pomerania, Germany.
Liberated in 1945 after a harrowing forced march across Germany, he travelled to Cornwall and had an experience that would forever change his life. On his return to Connecticut, he raised a family and embarked on a distinguished career in marketing and exporting
https://www.amazon.es/Deliverance-at-Diepholz-POWs-Story/dp/1503548503

Jack wrote a book on his experiences as a POW in Germany –

‘It has been said that every soldier fights a different war.  Here is a totally unique picture of WW2 by an American private, who spent the latter part of the conflict as a prisoner of the Germans.  Semi-autobiographical, this book, rich in the contradiction of war, relates the author’s sometimes bitter sometimes heart-warming personal experience

DELIVERANCE AT DIEPHOLZ is a carefully written, completely factual account of diverse cultures intermingling against a colourful background of POW life on a remote Pomeranian farm.  It stresses the triumph of basic human values in a sort of “man’s humanity to man” account that is gratifying to read.’

Book review on amazon.

Jack’s daughter added the following in the Foreword of his book –

In August 1984 Jack Dower set off on a journey to compose an epilogue to the book you are about to read.  My father was revisiting the place where he had been imprisoned 40 years earlier.  But while he survived the Nazis, this time he did not make it home.  In a profoundly sad irony, a massive heart attack took my father’s life on the very German soil over which he had once triumphed.