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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 341422, member: 22&quot;]My uncle Harry was captured by the Germans in France in 1939, he was sent to a camp in Austria then into Germany.</p><p>He became a trustee and was sent to work on farms.</p><p>He was bush beating one day while the Germans were having a hunt.</p><p>He was mistaken for a stag and got both barrels of a shot gun.</p><p>He survived and was even put in a propaganda film in hospital visited by Goring or Goebbels, to show how well the Nazis were looking after POW`s</p><p>Harry lived to a ripe old age even though he still had hundreds of pellets still inside his body.</p><p>He said if it had not been for German surgeons he would have died.</p><p>He never went overseas again.</p><p><br /></p><p>My mother and her family were bombed out of three homes by the Luftwaffe, losing everything they owned each time.</p><p>She detested Germans, she even went crazy with me when I bought a Mercedes.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Dad served in WWII from 39 -45 and witnessed quite a bit but survived unscathed.</p><p><br /></p><p>He fought in the Atlantic, visited France, Netherlands, Azores, New York, Halifax Nova Scotia and even captured a U-Boat.</p><p><br /></p><p>His biggest regret was not being able to help during the slaughter of hundreds of US marines during&nbsp; Exercise Tiger. (A disaster covered up by the US)</p><p>He also feels guilty that he may have killed many Dutch people whilst using a Bofors cannon to blow up German goods trains and troop carriers&nbsp; on the Netherlands coast.</p><p><br /></p><p>He gave me his medals last week to display in my bureau bookcase.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]114939[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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