[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Opinions on ARR-7. (Excerpt From Secret WWII Publication)

[D. Platt]

On 8/28/2012 1:17 PM, Glen Zook wrote:
> A lot of World War II veterans didn't say much about their tour of duty.
>
> My mother's eldest brother was on a destroyer escort that came on the 
> scene just after the German submarine U-505 was captured.  He didn't 
> relate that information until just a few years before he died.
>
> My father's younger brother was the only survivor of a B-17 crew that 
> went down in the English Channel.  He was picked up by a fishing boat 
> and taken to occupied France and, after some time, escaped through 
> Spain.  He never said anything about this.  My grandmother told me the 
> whole story.  As far as my uncle was concerned, he was shot down and 
> ended up in the "Channel".
> Glen, K9STH
>
>
U-505.... Good old Capt. (RAdm) Dan Gallery's ASW group!    Sometimes, 
the word does come through.  My airplane partner's father was a 
ball-turret gunner on B-17s.  He was shot down over Stettin Germany in 
1944 and was made a POW at Stalag Luft 21 (?) in Austria.  In civil 
life, he was an accomplished commercial artist and was responsible for 
much of the aircraft nose art in his bomb group.  He made a number of 
illustration while a POW as well as a (prohibited) diary.  When the 
Soviets came back into Austria, the POWs were marched west and at some 
point were all but abandoned.  His written history of this odyssey is 
very interesting and I have copies of some of his work.

K3HVG