[Milsurplus] "In for a penney, in for a pound', RAF memoir

[Hubert Miller]

Thanks for that lead, Ron. I found this video moving and well worth 16 minutes viewing.
With that wing shot off the B-17, I am surprised anyone at all survived.
One thing about the Stalag puzzles me: the memories "Log Book" around the time of the
Christmas 1944 celebration, has a note in the Log Book that says, "New radio station
broadcasting to all the barracks".  I wonder what that's about? I cannot see the German
captors installing any kind of wired wireless announcing system in the barracks. But who
knows?
-Hue Miller

From: Ron De Silva
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:26 PM
To: Hubert Miller
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] "In for a penney, in for a pound', RAF memoir

Oops,bad link

Here is the episode from KQED archive

https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-stalag-17-portrait/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fvideo%2Fhistory-detectives-stalag-17-portrait%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C554ac5408657492b164f08d8f4bdf517%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637528443981918762%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ryfVxOlBy9KvgeSQ1mKfF7%2BIIIdPWY%2B1Buic5AL8szg%3D&reserved=0>

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 8:23 PM Ron De Silva  wrote:
Speaking of Aircraft radio and the Britts.
Dad's cousin George Silva was a B17 radio operator..shot down in April 1944.

George got a kick out of me still using ARC5's and BC348 like he had in the Passionate Witch.

History detectives did an episode on his being shot down and being captured spending the rest of the war in Stalag17..Dad always thought,maybe I'll be able to spring my cousin George when we get into Austria.

I have a photo of George here at 90 years old getting a free flight on a restored B17 in his old radio op position!

He was so thrilled!

He said that the FIRST Passionate Witch was destroyed when a damaged British Lancaster skidded off the runway and Crashed into their B17 only a short time after they landed with only some flak damage.

Like he said,we got away from the Germans and the Britts destroyed us.

He kept in touch with the Lancaster radio operator for many years.

Ron
NU6F

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