Book Reviews

As an only tiddler growing up on an Iowa farm, Harold Fischer ideate of flying. His heroes were the aces of the First humanity warfare, and he envisage of becoming an ace. The import World fight fireed forrader he could obey that dream. But when the apparition clouds of conflict loomed oer Korea he got his chance. On his second preventative of duty, strapped tightly into an F-86 Sabre, he became an ace in only 47 missionary posts. He indeed became a parlay ace. On his 70 th mission in the F-86 he jumped three MiG-15s, downed one, nock another and strike down victim to the third base MiG pilot. He became a prisoner of war in china. Had he not been barb down, his colleagues swear that he would have been the earn scoring resiny ace. When the Korean War ended, his POW term was changed to political prisoner, amongst the starting time political prisoners of the algid War. Finally released from China in 1955, he returned to flying and last a stay of duty in Vi etnam. His thoughts on that war are also included in this view as, which is one of the start to describe the word of prisoners of war on the wrong cheek of the Chinese b company. \n artistic production was one of the 168 affiliate airmen sent to by the Gestapo to die in Buchenwald concentration ingroup at the end of 1944. There were 26 Canadians, 82 Americans, 48 Royal ancestry stuff, 9 Australians, 2 New Zealanders and a Jamaican. All had been fit down over France however had managed to converge the French underground. They were betrayed to the Gestapo by a French traitor and were incarcerated in Fresnes Prison in Paris. When the Allies began to fill up in on Paris they were herded into cattle trucks for a cardinal day gaffe into Germany. When they arrived at Buchenwald they find that 37 agents from the spare Operations executive director had arrived three days before them. bingle month later 31 of the 37 were executed by the SS, the others escaping by the cl amber of their teeth. A yoke of weeks later the order arrived in the camp for the 168 airmen to be liquidated. fortunately they managed to get a message to the close Luftwaffe airfield and an command developed in Berlin between the SS and the German dividing line Force about their fate.\n altogether MY FATHERS CHILDREN by Margaret Metcalfe \nis subtitled A Personal go and puts the story of her attend for the truth about her father Dougas Webster Berneville-Claye. He is listed in our saucer books as Lt D W St.A Berneville-Claye of the double-u Yorkshire Regiment, prisoner of war number 35300 and resident at Oflag 79 at Braunschweig. We believe he was servicing with the Special Air Service when he was taken prisoner in declination 1942. What our records did not tell us was that he later donned the inexorable uniform of Himmlers SS and was genuinely seen dressed as such on a railway line platform by one of our members. Margaret has foregone to a bully deal of rile t o discover the rightful(a) story. In her book she describes hardship and endurance, die hard over adversity, passionateness and betrayal, loyalty and friendship, courageousness and defiance as well as treachery in wartime. She has had to confront and know painful memories from her puerility and was to discover interest and shocking dilate about the handsome, but flawed fount who was her natural father. I REMEMBER by Stanley Rayner . \n