My late Uncle Roger who served in The Ox and Bucks Light Infantry was captured after the fall of France and imprisoned in OFLAG7B. He and his comrades were shackled for the best part of a year, the chains only being removed on Christmas Day 1942 and New Year's Day 1943.
On liberation his POW column was subjected to the appalling ordeal of being machine-gunned by American Thunderbolts when many casualties were sustained. It was, he said, the most shocking experience that he had suffered during his war service.
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