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A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 1: Before.

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Gord and Leslie Davison. We were stationed in...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 2: 48 Hours to D-Day.

The bridges were at Grave, on the river Maas, Nijmegen on the Waal and Arnhem on the Rhine... Now the whole...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 3: Preparation.

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Gord and Leslie Davison. These were French...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 4: 30,000 Allied Troops.

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Gord and Leslie Davison. With a total of about...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 5: 1:56 PM on the 17th of September.

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Gord and Leslie Davison. Our stick landed...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 6: Oosterbeek

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Gord and Leslie Davison. Our host dialed a...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 7: St. Elisabeth Hospital

It was my intention to get them to the St. Elisabeth Hospital as soon as conditions were favorable, however...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 8: 28th of September

By about 10A.M. on the Wednessday morning the fighting all around the hospital area had quietened down...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 9: The Escape

The Captain spoke German as he had trained in Germany before the war and for all we knew we might be in...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 10: Avoidance

I had figured Nico to be about 32 or 33 years old and when we entered the kitchen we were introduced to...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 11: Hiding

He could see Lena and Trijnkje in the kitchen and heard Nico working in his study, so he probably thought,...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 12: Hiding Part Two

The head of the family was the manager of the local public baths and consequently had frequent dealings...

A Story of Escape..WW2 -Chapter 13: Hiding Part Three

We threw it into the water and then Vic climbed in... The road to Nijmegen was under about 3 ft. of water,...

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