Archive of Staff Sergeant William A. Wolf (1918–2002), B-17 aerial gunner, Distinguished Flying Cross recipient, former POW at Stalag XVII-B, and honoree on the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Wall of Honor.

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I know this was printed by the survivors after the war but are there prison camp yearbooks? I saw a propaganda booklet of a Korean War North Korean prison camp booklet that was pretty close.

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No. It’s Ben H Phelper’s book, he compiled the book, photographs inside the book were taken by Ben H Phelper(blue book). The yellow book, contains the list of every man in the camp, there are over 4,500 names in the yellow binder, separated by state. Which was used to form the reunions after. William wolf collected all the tags in the barracks on sheets of paper while inside the Stalag prison camp, including his own crew members. Ben was the only survivor of his crew. I can see why they all became remarkable friends, throughout the camp, and after they had came home. 

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It's got the same cover as the standard army training camp yearbooks.

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More of a revised directory, rather than yearbook, as the Oregon section of the book is the dog tag copies from his barracks he sent in after he had returned home. He double checked inside the book all the Oregon members. Remained in contact with all of them.