	In the Army, Diggs was a part of the third division in the U.S. invasion of Sicily in 1943, where he was captured and held as a prisoner at Oflag 64, a prison camp in northern Poland. As a POW, Diggs met with George Juskalian and together they founded and edited a POW newspaper which was based on reports from incoming POWs and German accounts. Among the journalist who wrote for the paper was Pulitzer prize winner, Larry Allen.