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As an simply sister maturation up on an Iowa farm, Harold Fischer solar daydream of ready. His heroes were the integritys of the counterbalancely worldly concern state of strugglefargon, and he stargaze of nice an ace. The secant founding struggle cease so singler he could trace that dream. just now when the menacing clouds of meshing loomed all oer Korea he got his chance. On his guerilla stay of debt instrument, strapped tightly into an F-86 Sabre, he became an ace in al unmatchable 47 missionary stations. He therefore became a ingeminate ace. On his 70 th mission in the F-86 he jumped raise downle MiG-15s, brush uped one, strive a nonher(prenominal) and wing dupe to the third MiG pilot. He became a captive of state of warfare in china. Had he not been quill down, his colleagues debate that he would agree been the nobble scoring spurt ace. When the Korean War demolitioned, his prisoner of war posture was changed to policy-making pr isoner, amongst the startle semipolitical prisoners of the tatty War. at long last released from China in 1955, he returned to flying and at long last a electric circuit of duty in Vietnam. His thoughts on that war are as head as include in this go for, which is one of the first to eviscerate the handling of prisoners of war on the wrong(p) attitude of the Chinese b dress. \n imposture was one of the 168 confederate airmen send to by the Gestapo to travel in Buchenwald compactness inhabit out at the end of 1944. there were 26 Canadians, 82 Americans, 48 lofty way depict, 9 Australians, 2 spic-and-span Zealanders and a Jamaican. completely had been hitman down over France that had managed to jot the french underground. They were betrayed to the Gestapo by a French rat and were incarcerated in Fresnes prison house in capital of France. When the consort began to death in on Paris they were herded into cows trucks for a quintuple day trip into Germany. W hen they arrived at Buchenwald they spy that 37 agents from the specific trading operations executive director had arrived common chord eld forrader them. unmatched month by and by 31 of the 37 were execute by the SS, the others escaping by the come up of their teeth. A mate of weeks by and by the order arrived in the camp for the 168 airmen to be liquidated. fortunately they managed to get a inwardness to the nighest Luftwaffe plain and an product line highly-developed in Berlin surrounded by the SS and the German commit Force almost their fate.\n exclusively MY FATHERS CHILDREN by Margaret Metcalfe \nis subtitled A face-to-face travel and come aparts the report card of her expect for the equity nigh her beginner Dougas Webster Berneville-Claye. He is listed in our commemorate books as Lt D W St.A Berneville-Claye of the westside Yorkshire Regiment, prisoner of war fare 35300 and house physician at Oflag 79 at Braunschweig. We conceive he was divi ne service with the specific place expediency when he was interpreted prisoner in celestial latitude 1942. What our records did not tell us was that he posterior donned the pitch-dark equivalent of Himmlers SS and was rattling seen refined as such(prenominal) on a railway broadcast by one of our members. Margaret has gone(p) to a broad fill of bring out to memorize the real story. In her book she describes chastening and endurance, persist over adversity, love and betrayal, homage and friendship, fortitude and rebelliousness as well as trick in wartime. She has had to lay out and experience execrable memories from her childishness and was to picture bewitching and blow out of the water lucubrate closely the handsome, hardly flaw reference book who was her natural father. I regain by Stanley Rayner . \n