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Old 30th Oct 2015, 21:10
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Danny: Entirely understandable, I'm sure. During the raids on Berlin in early 1944, there was a 10 Sqn crew shot down who considered themselves fortunate to have parachuted onto Tempelhof, where they were securely but safely arrested and sent down the interrogation/POW track. There are also plenty of stories of men en-route to POW camps being protected on trains etc by their German military escorts from very angry German civilians. And in the mid-1980s, I had dealings with a German 3-Star General who, after a couple of glasses, could become very bitter about the "RAF Terror Fliegers."
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