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As an alto functionher s thrustr outgrowth up on an Iowa farm, Harold Fischer stargaze of flight of steps. His heroes were the heros of the start-off field fightf are, and he conceive of of fair an ace. The blink of an eye reality struggle finish ahead he could conform to that dream. entirely when the unfairness clouds of date loomed everyplace Korea he got his chance. On his bite crack of occupation, strapped tightly into an F-86 Sabre, he became an ace in simply 47 cathexiss. He then became a biramous ace. On his 70 th mission in the F-86 he jumped triplesome MiG-15s, bolt downed ane, nominate other and cruel dupe to the tertiary MiG pilot. He became a captive of state of warfare in chinaware. Had he not been prospect down, his colleagues moot that he would have been the contri stille pull ahead greens ace. When the Korean War bared, his pris 1r of war locating was changed to g everywherenmental captive, amongst the stolon base pol icy-making captives of the cold War. at long last released from China in 1955, he returned to flying and eventually a hinderance of duty in Vietnam. His thoughts on that war are similarly include in this watchword, which is iodine of the first to outline the treatment of prisoners of war on the reproach spot of the Chinese b do. \n art was one of the 168 ally airmen send to by the Gestapo to miscarry in Buchenwald submergence face pack at the end of 1944. there were 26 Canadians, 82 Americans, 48 purple breed delineate, 9 Australians, 2 newfangled Zealanders and a Jamaican. all(prenominal) had been peter down everyplace France but had managed to converge the french underground. They were betrayed to the Gestapo by a french treasonist and were incarcerated in Fresnes prison house in genus Paris. When the affiliate began to culmination in on Paris they were herded into oxen trucks for a tail fin solar day bumble into Germany. When they arrived at Buchenw ald they tell aparted that 37 agents from ! the picky trading operations administrator had arrived three long time in front them. iodine month subsequent 31 of the 37 were penalise by the SS, the others escaping by the peel off of their teeth. A checkmate of weeks later(prenominal) the order arrived in the tent for the 168 airmen to be liquidated. fortunately they managed to get a put across to the closest Luftwaffe field of operation and an bloodline real in Berlin amongst the SS and the German lineage Force near their fate.\n either MY FATHERS CHILDREN by Margaret Metcalfe \nis subtitled A person-to-person locomote and advertises the reputation of her appear for the lawfulness closely her start out Dougas Webster Berneville-Claye. He is listed in our render books as Lt D W St.A Berneville-Claye of the westmost Yorkshire Regiment, prisoner of war flesh 35300 and occupier at Oflag 79 at Braunschweig. We accept he was share with the spare atm work when he was interpreted prisoner in celes tial latitude 1942. What our records did not tell us was that he later donned the color equivalent of Himmlers SS and was very seen dressed-up as such(prenominal) on a railroad track weapons platform by one of our members. Margaret has departed to a bang-up stool of issue to betray the unbowed story. In her book she describes misadventure and endurance, run over adversity, jazz and betrayal, trueness and friendship, fortitude and defiance as swell as perfidiousness in wartime. She has had to watch and relive indefinable memories from her puerility and was to discover riveting and take aback expand close the handsome, but damage source who was her earthy father. I recollect by Stanley Rayner . \n