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This is a brief description of my fathers war:
Green Howards posted with Desert Rats to North Africa and served at Alamein, selected for parachute training off the back of a lorry for SAS, sent to free Greece on an island called Leros, when approached a supposidely unoccupied island found an SS panzer division installed, pinned down, officers climb back in boats left men on beach, captured and sent to German POW camp, part of a group that created the begining of the first hydro-electric power station on the Rhine, escaped with a Russian, holed up in a cellar over night, when out next day only to discover they were opposite the SS HQ, was fed black bread by sympathic German local, eventually re captured and sent to Stalag XV11a near Vienna (have authentic map showing all PoW camps & a copy of the camps News paper dated June 11th 1944) was eventually shipped to Poland and boarded the famous Death Train (of which a film was made) got to Gdansk and off loaded for a smoke when Winston Churchills wife came round touring the area in an open top car, all the Brits shouted " Winnie" and she came over and asked what they were doing there, they explained and she got them off the train and home, eventually, to the Uk.
This is a very brief scenario but my father, who is still alive and is writing his memoirs, can fill in the full details.
He told me this in the late 70s and I told him to write the the Director of the Hydro-Electric Power station on the Rhine, he did so and they invited him and my step mother over, gratis, and did a follow story ..... they even found the daughter of the woman who fed them black bread on his escape. My father still holds these memories and, I believe, make fascinating read.

Rob

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