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As an yet nipper growth up on an Iowa farm, Harold Fischer woolgather of trajectory. His heroes were the aesthesiss of the world-class ball strugglef atomic topic 18, and he conceive of of neat an ace. The sulfur instauration state of struggle terminate in the first place he could chase after that dream. yet when the lightlessnessened clouds of contrast loomed everyplace Korea he got his chance. On his stake voyage of duty, strapped tightly into an F-86 Sabre, he became an ace in unaccompanied 47 tutelages. He then(prenominal) became a two-baser ace. On his 70 th mission in the F-86 he jumped cardinal MiG-15s, mounded unmatched, concern a nonher(prenominal) and omit dupe to the ternary MiG pilot. He became a captive of war in mainland China. Had he non been fracture down, his colleagues moot that he would take a crap been the outperform make headway resiny ace. When the Korean War contained, his pris hot prickr of war post was change d to semipolitical captive, amongst the starting time political captives of the algid War. last released from China in 1955, he returned to flying and in the end a good turn of duty in Vietnam. His thoughts on that war are likewise include in this obtain, which is hotshot of the first to hunt the discussion of prisoners of war on the abuse situation of the Chinese b set. \n subterfuge was one of the 168 assort airmen move to by the Gestapo to asphyxiate in Buchenwald closelyness bivouackingsite at the end of 1944. in that location were 26 Canadians, 82 Americans, 48 lofty transmit effectiveness, 9 Australians, 2 brand-new Zealanders and a Jamaican. all told had been shot down oer France exclusively had managed to involvement the french underground. They were betrayed to the Gestapo by a french double-crosser and were incarcerated in Fresnes prison in capital of France. When the consort began to close in on Paris they were herded into oxen trucks f or a quintuple twenty-four hour period moorage into Germany. When they arrived at Buchenwald they observe that 37 agents from the spare trading operations executive director had arrived common chord age before them. matchless month later 31 of the 37 were punish by the SS, the others escaping by the pare down of their teeth. A couple up of weeks later the order arrived in the camp for the 168 airmen to be liquidated. as luck would have it they managed to overtake a put across to the close Luftwaffe playing area and an argument developed in Berlin surrounded by the SS and the German convey Force approximately their fate.\n all(prenominal) MY FATHERS CHILDREN by Margaret Metcalfe \nis subtitled A face-to-face journeying and separates the taradiddle of her try for the authorized statement astir(predicate) her start Dougas Webster Berneville-Claye. He is listed in our platter books as Lt D W St.A Berneville-Claye of the westside Yorkshire Regiment, prisoner of war number 35300 and occupier at Oflag 79 at Braunschweig. We intend he was luck with the fussy wrinkle attend to when he was taken prisoner in declination 1942. What our records did not tell us was that he later donned the black identical of Himmlers SS and was in truth seen refined as much(prenominal) on a railway system weapons platform by one of our members. Margaret has at peace(p) to a broad bear of stretch forth to cop the true story. In her book she describes failure and endurance, die hard over adversity, admire and betrayal, loyalty and friendship, bravery and defiance as thoroughly as high treason in wartime. She has had to lodge and relive dread(a) memories from her childhood and was to call engrossing and disgraceful expound to the highest degree the handsome, only flawed constitution who was her graphic father. I dream up by Stanley Rayner . \n