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Jack Cook
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Wixer JCW's dad Walt's POW card. He was shot down over France in May 1944 while flying a B-26B with the 386th BG.
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Very cool!! Has to be a helluva thing to be shot down, hit the silk and become a POW.

I vaguely recall a story of either a RAF or RCAF pilot getting shot down over France(?). He bellys in and realizing he's not gonna be able to elude the German troops rapidly approaching his position. He pops a squat on the wing, lites up a fag and waits for the jerrys to arrive.


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He pops a squat on the wing, lites up a fag and waits for the jerrys to arrive.

Something got lost in translation mid-Atlantic there! :shock: The first bit again? ;)

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JDK wrote:
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He pops a squat on the wing, lites up a fag and waits for the jerrys to arrive.

Something got lost in translation mid-Atlantic there! :shock: The first bit again? ;)

LOL :lol:

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JDK wrote:
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He pops a squat on the wing, lites up a fag and waits for the jerrys to arrive.

Something got lost in translation mid-Atlantic there! :shock: The first bit again? ;)


He sat on the wing and smoked a cigarette.
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I see he still has a lot of hair in the picture. Pretty cool that they have his home address there. I guess that if he went over the wire, they would have a place to start looking for him.....

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I have seen similar documents for some Yugoslav Kingdom pilots which was prisoner of war. Most of them was in camps called Schtallag.

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steve dickey wrote:
He sat on the wing...

Ah, good. That's what I hoped was meant. :lol:

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