Posted by Tony in Mass. on May 16, 2013 at 10:22:18 from (76.127.225.182):
In Reply to: USAAF Memorial posted by Phil Scarborough on May 16, 2013 at 09:04:04:
The Midlands? That must have been rare. Seems British and Canadian bombers were based in the midlands. Most Yanks flew out of East Anglia, because most of their fuel tanks didn't have enough to make it to Germany and back from any further west. Don't know from which field, but I knew a fellow when I was a kid, he died in the early 80'? who's bomber didn't have enough gas to get back over the UK, they ditched in the North Sea. By the time the British Coast Guard found them, a few hours later, he was froze stiff, all his joints were 'arthritic'? from that day. A few months before that he was shot down over Belgium, he spoke French, so the resistance got the whole crew back to the UK within a week. He said when the British officer the Belgians turned them over to asked 'and why did you trust this crew to be American so quickly? And not hold them longer, thinking they were spies? The Belgian leader said 'when the little man started to speak French, we said, wow, this guy is certainly a North American who grew up speaking Quebec French, and all the old fashioned terrible curse words that go with it'..
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