-
Contributing Member
3 June 2024 Garand Picture of the Day
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
-
The Following 18 Members Say Thank You to Mark in Rochester For This Useful Post:
25-5,
42rocker,
Bill Hollinger,
Bob Womack,
CINDERS,
ed skeels,
fboyj,
fjruple,
frankderrico,
hardcore,
HOOKED ON HISTORY,
Jonzie,
lgr1613,
Low & Slow,
Ovidio,
RAM1ALASKA,
Sapper740,
Zeke55
-
06-03-2024 01:43 PM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
-
-
-
Contributing Member
That pic reminds me of the German
civilians treatment of the downed bomber pilots when they got hold of them, the German troops had to physically stop them killing them of no doubt I'm sure some perished.
All they had to say "Did not survive the parachute landing or dead when they landed".
-
Thank You to CINDERS For This Useful Post:
-
Legacy Member
I see the police with their pistols drawn. But weren't the police required to swear an oath of allegiance to the Vichy regime? So didn't that make them as much the enemy as the nazis?
-
-
Contributing Member
[QUOTE=Timothy-R;539258]Paris Opera house?
Yes
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
-
-
Advisory Panel
Originally Posted by
CINDERS
That pic reminds me of the
German civilians treatment of the downed bomber pilots when they got hold of them,
In a related, but contrasting incident... Mum was in the WAAF during the war, and she told me that at one point during the Blitz period she happened across a group of people in the street gathered around the body of a German aviator who had come down dead in his parachute. These folks were tossing coins on that 'chute to help towards the man's burial.
-
The Following 5 Members Say Thank You to Terry Hawker For This Useful Post:
-
Legacy Member
Cinders, could you please provide a reference to the mistreatment of downed aviators? I want to follow it up.
-
-
-
The Following 3 Members Say Thank You to CINDERS For This Useful Post:
-
Legacy Member
Thank you Cinders. It doesn't seem to be widespread but the anger of the townspeople is understandable. I will lool further.
-
-
Contributing Member
Daan, Cinders may well be referring to a passage in Tom Clavin's "Lightning Down". He specifically mentions the epithet "terrorflieger" being applied to Joe Moser, a downed P-38 pilot who wound up in Buchenwald for some time.
-
Thank You to Low & Slow For This Useful Post:
PM
