The article that was posted just for this had some stories told by the veterans.
JIM WATSON, 87
Barely escaped by parachuting after his plane was shot down by enemy fire over Europe, but five members of his crew didn't. He was in the Army Air Force and was a waist gunner in a bomber and had volunteered for this particular mission. He was captured on the ground and spent four months in a POW camp in Poland.
SIGMUND BIERNAT, 90
His hometown in Poland was seized by Germans in 1940 and he and his family were taken over in cattle cars. He eventually was recruited into a small Polish unit of the British Royal Army and sent to fight in Egypt and Libya. He still has shrapnel in his heel where he was wounded.
DONALD McCORMICK, 85
He was an Army Ranger and captured in his first battle in Italy and spent more than a year in a German work camp.
The Greatest generation. --Cooter
No comments:
Post a Comment