Bren at War

[Vincent]

Thank you, Luis.
I don’t know the year. I will see if I can find it. He was a Cameron.
My uncle was with the German 5th Light Afrika Division, later named the 21st Panzer Division.
After the war they were good friends. I remember one night when I was maybe five years old, they talked about some of the battles in North Africa. They used things on the table, knives, forks, spoons, salt & pepper, etc to make a map of the battle fields and show where they were.
My father was captured by the Germans and later escaped. My uncle was captured by the English and sent to a POW camp here in Texas where he spent the rest of the war.

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[Paul S.]

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My father was captured by the Germans and later escaped. My uncle was captured by the English and sent to a POW camp here in Texas where he spent the rest of the war.

I have to admit that gave me a laugh.

[Gopher]

When I was in college, I worked a part time job. My supervisor was a former German soldier that had been captured in Africa. He was shipped to New Orleans. Upon arrival, word was pasted to be very careful when leaving the boat as the American guards were all very young and were armed with machine guns.
He did farm work for the rest of the war and said it was not unusual to slip out of the POW camp and go to town.