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Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62
An old friend of mine was a B-17 pilot in Eighth Air Force during WW2. Max ( my friend) was shot down on his seventh mission ( Magdeburg). He managed to get his entire crew out before bailing out himself. Max spent the next eighteen months in a Luft stalag in Germany before being liberated. He never did forgive the Germans for how he and his fellow POWs were treated. Max could go on for hours about turnip soup and sawdust bread.
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One of my great-uncles flew a B17 and it was shot down and crashed about half an hour by car from where I now live. He survived but was captured.
Here's that story (
https://www.214squadron.org.uk/Crews...ress.htm#SR382)
It also contains a link to Harry Whattons war diary. It details life in a Stalag-luft prison in case you are interesting in reading about that, your friend would have gone through a similar ordeal I'd imagine.