Posted on 10/28/2021 5:18:37 PM PDT by Scarlett156
The son of a Bomber Command pilot whose plane exploded in a fireball in Nazi Germany has revealed his father's incredible story of survival during the war.
Gerald Sherwood, 80, from St Austell, Cornwall, told how Wing Commander John 'Flap' Sherwood took part in a daring mission before being captured in his new book.
He also highlighted how the RAF hero was chucked in Stalag Luft III - the Luftwaffe-run prisoner of war camp made famous by the Great Escape.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Thanks for posting!
The imagination (and wordiness) is/are stymied in the attempt to describe their bravery.
Just more toxic masculinity.
Of which we need a whole lot more.
His wife said, when they told her he didn’t survive the crash, that she hadn’t felt that anything bad had happened to him and he was okay.
If it weren’t for men there would be no civilizations at all.
We are the ones who build civilization. We invent and create and design and build. We also do a lot of repair and maintenance of all kinds.
A great glipse at this truth is the second season of bear grylls team survival challenges that have an all women group compared to an all-men group on separate isolated islands. The females are laughable and get hardly anything done other than starve and waste time. The men get organized and build good shelters, a water supply, and develop food sources. Night and day. Men build civilzation, women cry and dont get anything of significnce done.
Well she was at least half wrong.
Getting shot down in a war and your plane blowing up, and being captured and sent to a war prison camp, that is bad.
That happening to him is incredibly “bad”.
Not dying, that he was alive, ok she was right about that part.
In the later pics, it looked as though he was enjoying life.
In terms of warfare, surviving a long ordeal like that is always good, though talking about it later is bad, and you might always be confused in your mind about what constitutes “good” and “bad” after that, and so might your family. (This thanks to a teacher of mine in grade school who had taken part in the liberation of Buchenwald. I have no personal experience with warfare but have read a lot of stories.)
*soulful expression* But it wouldn’t be nothin.... NOTHIN!!! Without a woman or a girl.....
Pray for men like these to be among us when the need next arises. It will arise soon, and I think men like this are a silent majority whose voices will be heard when the time comes...
For sure.
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Please, thats the cucked answer.
Pray for men like these to be among us when the need next arises. It will arise soon, and I think men like this are a silent majority whose voices will be heard when the time comes.
Amen.
I believe that was the character portrayed by James Garner in the movie.
I read the history of Gold Star Mothers. There were parents out there that no matter when they got the “letter” from Uncle Sam, they somehow knew they made a mistake.
How is one captured in a book?
Do you check your PMs? !:^0
In the movie, Bob Hendley (James Garner) gets in a German plane with Colin Blythe (Donald Pleasance)...The plane crashes...Germans catch up to them...Blythe is shot by Germans...Hendley is an American who served with RAF...I did consult Wikipedia...
In the movie, Germans do execute captured prisoners...In the camp, the German commander tells a senior British officer that prisoners were shot because they refused to stop running...The British officer did not believe that story...
The Great Escape 2 was on NBC...In 1988...Christopher Reeve plays a British officer who chases Germans who executed Allied prisoners...
80? WW2 ended 76 years ago.
This man would have been four years old.
Am I missing something here?
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