Posted on 09/21/2010 5:21:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I'll bet we don't have to wait that long.
There’s a book I just read called “Deathride”, about the war on the Eastern Front. Gave me a lot of food for thought. You might find it interesting.
We were at our school roof play ground eating from our brown lunch bags at 11:00 AM, seeing the planes approx 50 feet above our heads, coming from west heading east and the pilots waving to us, approx five to seven miles west of the target Shellhus. My father owned a fish retail store about five to six blocks west of the French Catholic school and three to four miles from our school!
My two elder brother working with my parents rushed to the bomb site trying to rescue victims out of the rubles, which were a frightening sight I personally visit after school hours. Those sirens you hear in the video is something you never forget, because they would sound in the middle of nights when RAF and USAF were on special missions toward targets in Germany south of us!!
They would cross the North Sea flying over Denmark and turn south many times at the end of German's collapse!!!
Thanks for sharing that. It’s always most interesting when you hear the stories from those who where there. It really gives perspective and puts things in context.
No I haven't, I mostly post on the Baracka Hussein Abu Amama eligibility threads debating some very committed SPs and Benedict Arnolds, however, this morning not much was on those threads, so I scrolled down finding your NYT article, and I jumped in with what I personally experienced from April 9, 1940 to the end of WWII w/feelings from a young boy's prospective!
From my father's fish store, the Nobel Winner, professor Niels Bohr, would order fish from the store, and I as the youngest would jump on the "long-john" bicycle and deliver it to Mr. Bohr, who was very generous giving tip and shaking my hand!!
Niels Bohr had to leave DK 1943 and came over here working with Alamo project. I still take the Danish newspaper POLITIKEN WEEKLY keeping up with what takes place in my former country. My maternal grandfather was member of the Danish Parliament in the twenties with the party who is in power today!!!
Sorry, missed posting you, see 25!!!
I recently wrote a book review on The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and he goes into some detail on Niels Bohr in general as well as his escape from Denmark. An interesting detail was when he was secreted out of Sweden, where he had originally fled, to Britain. He was smuggled out in the bomb bay of a British Mosquito aircraft. The bomb bay had been modified to hold a single person and was equipped with oxygen mask, headset to communicate with the pilot and flares. The flares were in the event the aircraft came under attack. In that event the pilot would open the bomb bay and Bohr would parachute into the North Sea and these flares were supposed to aid in finding him in the water (good thing that didn't happen). However, the headset did not fit Niels well and he missed the pilot's order to don his oxygen mask. The pilot, flying above the 20,000 ceiling for flak became concerned when his cargo was not answering the radio and as soon as he was over the ocean descended to a lower altitude. This was fortunate since Niels was unconscious in the the bomb bay due to lack of oxygen.
I have read about that flight before, WOW. Here’s another link:!
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Bohr_Niels.html
On the last image Niels Bohr is smoking a pipe. Yes, I remember him coming to the door for receiving the fish packet and pay for it, he would always have his straight pipe in his mouth and speaking at the same time. He was a very mild and mannered person even speaking to a young lad like me!!
His brother Harald was an avid Soccer player (fodbold), and Niels also played Goalkeeper on the same team, but that was before my time!!!
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