World War II/Awesome: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
Jade Shauni (talk | contribs) |
Jade Shauni (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 628: | Line 628: | ||
** While being held as a prisoner at Stalag Luft III (The facility were [[The Great Escape]] events occurred), Bader's legs were confiscated from him to prevent him from making more attempts to escape from the camp. Seems the officer in charge of the facility doesn't want to explain to his superiors that he could not keep a legged man and was shamed into returning the legs shortly thereafter. In 1942, Bader escaped from the Stalag Luft III with four other prisoners. |
** While being held as a prisoner at Stalag Luft III (The facility were [[The Great Escape]] events occurred), Bader's legs were confiscated from him to prevent him from making more attempts to escape from the camp. Seems the officer in charge of the facility doesn't want to explain to his superiors that he could not keep a legged man and was shamed into returning the legs shortly thereafter. In 1942, Bader escaped from the Stalag Luft III with four other prisoners. |
||
** He ended up in the Colditz (Oflag IV C), where he managed to convince the commandant that he can't properly execrise in the castle grounds and so had little space to walk around the countryside on parole. During these walks, he filled his legs with chocolate, tobacco, and other goods from the red cross parcels, and used them to carry on a propaganda campaign against the Nazis amongst the surrounding farms. |
** He ended up in the Colditz (Oflag IV C), where he managed to convince the commandant that he can't properly execrise in the castle grounds and so had little space to walk around the countryside on parole. During these walks, he filled his legs with chocolate, tobacco, and other goods from the red cross parcels, and used them to carry on a propaganda campaign against the Nazis amongst the surrounding farms. |
||
* James MacLachlan. After becoming an ace, he was shot down over Malta, and lost an arm. James got an artificial arm, returned to combat, and did it again. |
|||
* James MacLachlan. |
|||
* Flt. Lt. Colin Walker, who piloted the Short Sunderland, on June 2, 1943. - A single slow, heavy, flying boat designed for anti-submarine warfare was jumped by EIGHT German heavy fighters out over the Bay of Biscay, it not only managed to escape, but was able to shoot down six of the attackers while taking in-survivable amounts of punishment. Eventually limping back to Britain , the crew topped off the CMOA by wading out of the sea, all with several degrees of injury, and carrying their one dead comrade in their arms. |
|||
* Flt. Lt. Colin Walker, who piloted the Short Sunderland, |
|||
* The "Fuzzy-Wuzzy Angels," |
* The "Fuzzy-Wuzzy Angels," |
||