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01-12-15, 05:07 PM | #106 |
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Yep von Ryans express is pretty good though I think the book had a much better ending than the movie.
I just picked up this book the other day Not too bad so far....
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01-14-15, 04:47 PM | #107 |
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Escape To Victory
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01-14-15, 08:54 PM | #108 |
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I just finished reading Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War, By John D. Lukacs, which I had gotten for Christmas. It is a truly amazing book to read covering everything from the tensions before the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan, though the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor, the horrors of the Bataan Death March, to the camps which the POWs where placed in afterwards, the conditions of the camps. Everything was put down in minute detail. These twelve prisoners who escaped from the Davao Penal Colony on the Philippine island of Mindanao, to tell the world what was happening to their comrades in these camps only to be told by their own government that they couldn't say anything to anyone about what they had seen. One of the men, Major William Edwin "Ed" Dyess (USAAF) wrote this at the start of his report to the War Department, " I had tried to put into words some of the things that I have experienced and observed during these past months, but I fail to find words adequate to an accurate portrayal. If any American could sit down and conjure before his mind the most diabolical of nightmares, he might perhaps come close to it, but none who have not gone though it could possibly have any idea of the tortures and the horror that these men are going though." Maj. William Dyess, August 16, 1943. After reading this book, his words are far more then adequate.
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01-14-15, 09:41 PM | #109 | |
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01-17-15, 05:47 AM | #110 |
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While it was difficult and dangerous enough for escapees in the ETO to get back to the UK in WWII, how on earth did these Pacific escapers get home? I'd be interested in just one example of a route taken by an individual (mustn't spoil it for anyone planning to read these books).
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01-17-15, 05:42 PM | #112 |
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You want an example of a route then I recommend The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause.
These guys sailed this all the way from the Philippines to Australia This guy not only fought through the fall of Bataan and Corregidor then escaped from the Japanese and sailed this thing to Australia but he then went to Europe and flew fighters against the Germans. His book is an excellent read.
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01-18-15, 07:26 AM | #113 |
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^ First I've heard and will certainly look it up
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02-25-15, 10:38 AM | #114 |
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"The Last Escape"
Just found this today in a second-hand shop, August:
ISBN 0-670-91094-5 published by Penguin/Viking 2002 (These authors collaborated more recently on the similar book, already mentioned, "Home Run" ISBN 978-0-670-91603-0, same publisher) |
02-25-15, 12:18 PM | #115 |
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Thanks for the heads up! Please let me know what you think of the book.
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02-25-15, 05:50 PM | #116 |
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I just finished reading an oldie but a goodie. It's called Escape or Die Authentic Stories of the RAF Escaping Society by Paul Brickhill (same author as The Great Escape). It has seven stories in all and take place in both different parts of the world and different operational theaters. It is worth reading if you can find a copy of it, mine came from the library of the Auburn University at Montgomery.
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02-25-15, 07:57 PM | #117 |
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This is a great thread.
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02-26-15, 05:28 AM | #118 |
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"Zere vill be no ezgape from ziss thread..." |
02-28-15, 10:11 AM | #119 |
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The origins of "Big X":
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...03&postcount=1 care of our own Von Tonner |
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"Big X" was first shot by a "Dr Spann, a senior Gestapo officer, who failed to kill him. Spann then ordered Emil Schulz, a minor civilian official, to shoot Bushell again, which he did reluctantly. Spann was later killed in an Allied air raid, but Emil Schulz was captured, tried for the murder of Bushell, found guilty and executed."
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