How the Great Escape tunnels were built (TR)

UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/13/2019 | Sara Malm

[IAGeezer912]

My brothers father in law was a farm boy that became a B17 pilot. After the war he went back to the farm and never flew anywhere the rest of his life. My brother has his leather flight jacket.

[alexander_busek]

Bader got transferred to “Der Das Sonderlager” or Colditz for his escape effort.

Regards,

[tubebender]

Prayers do get results...

[tubebender]

Werner said the pilot was dead at the controls, the tail gunner survived as did one side gunner. Wern remembered to put a couple of 45 slugs through the Norton bomb sight. I will have to reread his notes to me later in life

[Celtic Conservative]

Danke.

CC

[AFreeBird]

L8r

[Gay State Conservative]

Save for later...absolutely!

[Gay State Conservative]

Tubebender...it sounds to me as if your family is just chock full of what many call “The Greatest Generation”!

[Mathews]

a MAMA always knows...

[tubebender]

I got one date wrong. My two brothers were drafted in early 1942

[G-Bear]

DFG said:
“Eventually, the POWs agreed to return a secret book that was in the car, but only after they finished consuming its contents, and putting a special stamp imprinted inside the book (stamp made from heel of a boot) stating that the book had passed inspection at some British Department of something other. No one does cheeky like the Brits, and no one is more fun to have be the butt of such cheekiness as a Kraut.”

That right there is one of the funniest things I have ever heard!

[Chickensoup]

It was a different era and the people were real in a way we cannot hope to be.

My mother in law and father in law were models of life for me, I loved them dearly, and they were both caught up in the War. Me? I am the product of the Marshall Plan. Dad went back and married an Italian.