"Simple Sounds of Freedom" by Joseph Beyrle
Life Story of an American Para who made two Jumps into France
before D-Day, then made the D-Day Jump only to be captured, escape several times, get handed over to the Gestapo for some bad treatment and saved by the intervention of the German military.....to escape and wind up fighting alongside a Russian Tank Unit.
He was declared KIA...a funeral was held....and a couple of years later the same Priest married him to his girlfriend.
It is thought there is a German Soldier buried in an American Military Cemetery under a marker bearing the author's name.
His Son later became a Deputy Ambassador to Russia.
He later was awarded four Military Awards by Boris Yeltsin and an AK-47 by Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK.
Joseph R. Beyrle, Sergeant United States Army