The prisoners were German soldiers who were in Rommel's Afrika Korps and were captured in North Africa.
Dade County, Missouri, Miami-Dade County, Florida, Dade County, Georgia, Dadeville, Alabama, and Dade City, Florida are all named after Major Dade, who was originally from Virginia.
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In 1878 his wanderlust struck again and he moved to Central, South Carolina, where he built a restaurant on the train line that went from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. Sometime in the late 1880s or early 1890s, Thrasher and his wife followed his sons to Dade City, Florida, where he grew oranges.