All
I know this was all sometime ago, but my father was shot down over Germany, and fortunately survived, and was in POW camp from 1943 onwards. He claims some of the most dangerous times were after being shot down, when being in rail transport, or being in column on the march. They were being shot up by Mustang and Typhoon fighters when being marched into Germany upon the Russian advance. They all got to the state that their biggest fear was not their guards, but the allied air forces ! He obviously survived but 6 of his "Kriegies" friend,s who went into the "bag" in France 1940 were killed by low level allied strafing in 1945. "Train/column busting has an unfortunate and unforeseen price sometimes" - which his, and I believe a some what charitable view from what went on. Dads comment are those of an RAF Flying officer , mine are those of an ex "Rupert" and both are unfortunately from our own wars.
Regards
Mr Mac