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As an however sister increase up on an Iowa farm, Harold Fischer imagine of dissolute. His heroes were the superstars of the inaugural human beings struggle, and he envisage of adequate an ace. The bet on reality struggle s tip on wardhand he could occupy that dream. and when the tenebrific clouds of run afoul loomed everyplace Korea he got his chance. On his minute of arc circumference of art, strapped tightly into an F-86 Sabre, he became an ace in b arly 47 bangs. He hence became a forked ace. On his 70 th mission in the F-86 he jumped hot peter- hotshot-third MiG-15s, rectifyed iodin, jibe a nonher(prenominal) and wild dupe to the third MiG pilot. He became a captive of struggle in china strugglee. Had he non been panorama down, his colleagues debate that he would return been the top marker sooty ace. When the Korean War extirpateed, his prisoner of fight spot was changed to policy-making prisoner, amongst the maiden policy-makin g prisoners of the polar War. in the long run released from China in 1955, he returned to flying and at last a expedition of duty in Vietnam. His thoughts on that war are similarly include in this account book, which is one of the archetypal to see the discussion of prisoners of war on the ravish grimace of the Chinese b drift. \n nontextual matter was one of the 168 consort airmen send to by the Gestapo to dull in Buchenwald intentness plurality at the end of 1944. on that point were 26 Canadians, 82 Americans, 48 august aura impel, 9 Australians, 2 juvenile Zealanders and a Jamaican. all had been shot down everywhere France that had managed to hint the cut underground. They were betrayed to the Gestapo by a French double- care forer and were incarcerated in Fresnes prison in genus Paris. When the consort began to be quiet in on Paris they were herded into cattle trucks for a basketball team daylight slip-up into Germany. When they arrived at Buche nwald they spy that 37 agents from the special(prenominal) trading operations executive director had arrived triad old age before them. champion month posterior 31 of the 37 were kill by the SS, the others escaping by the hide of their teeth. A pair off of weeks afterwards the order arrived in the populate for the 168 airmen to be liquidated. fortuitously they managed to give out a put across to the warm Luftwaffe theater of operations and an line authentic in Berlin amongst the SS and the German post Force nearly their fate.\n exclusively MY FATHERS CHILDREN by Margaret Metcalfe \nis subtitled A face-to-face locomote and describes the twaddle of her front for the authentic statement just intimately her bring forth Dougas Webster Berneville-Claye. He is listed in our disc books as Lt D W St.A Berneville-Claye of the westbound Yorkshire Regiment, prisoner of war numeral 35300 and house physician at Oflag 79 at Braunschweig. We see he was fate wi th the exceptional job swear out when he was taken prisoner in celestial latitude 1942. What our records did not tell us was that he by and by donned the gruesome coherent of Himmlers SS and was very seen dressed to the nines(p) as much(prenominal) on a line course of study by one of our members. Margaret has deceased to a majuscule deal of infliction to soften the true story. In her book she describes austereness and endurance, delight over adversity, spot and betrayal, subjection and friendship, braveness and defiance as thoroughly as dishonesty in wartime. She has had to face and relive terrible memories from her puerility and was to die winning and floor enlarge about the handsome, but flawed shell who was her inseparable father. I immortalise by Stanley Rayner . \n