Posted on 09/13/2009 3:39:39 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is a video report on a World War II Pilot who was shot down over Germany in July 1944 and taken captive. While being held in a cellar outside Berlin, Bernerd Harding took his wings off his uniform and buried them in a corner of the cellar to prevent the Germans from knowing he was the pilot of a plane.
Now, at age 90, he returns to Germany to look for those wings. He did not find the wings, but he brought back something else for another family. . . . (VIDEO)
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Wow. What a story. Thanks for posting.
Great story about a 90 year old hero!
My Dad was sent to Germany after the war to gather up all the Allied aircraft and destroy them. Only the very small parts and very expensive parts were removed and sent home on boats. The propellers and some of the electronic stuff.
Dad searched antique malls for one of those props, but never found one. Sadly he passed away in 2006 at the age of 89.
Dad said we were very concerned that Nazi sympathizers would rise up and use our planes against us. We had destroyed almost all of the German planes. So after removing the correct parts, Dad was instructed, by a General, to order in ordinance and blow them up. He had bull dozers come in and dig trenches and they piled the planes in the trenches and then laced them with dynamite and blew them up.
Dad said he loved airplanes so much that he cried when they blew them up.
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WWII pilot to search German cellar for lost wings
Stars and Stripes | September 4, 2009 | By Norma Love
Posted on 09/04/2009 9:50:58 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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