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German C.P. we both felt that without a doubt we would be shot. We
had already been treated rather rough by the 2 Germans that had
captured us, and when we were told to sit on the side of a bank, with
a German aiming his gun at our backs, we surely felt that our time had
come. I looked over at the Chaplain and said, "Chappie, do you remember
that bet I collected from you on the deer, well, I didn’t shoot that
deer, I bought him." The Chappie said that was all right, that he
was indebted to be for about the same [crossed out] xxxxxx [end crossed out] amount of money anyway,
so our obligations were even. There was not a smile or any sign of
joking between us, and the whole conversation was in complete [crossed out] xxx [end crossed out]
seriousness. The Chaplain [crossed out] xxxxxxxxxx [end crossed out] was a prisioner for about
9 months or more, and was rescued in a P.W. camp in Poland by the
Russians. His name was Robert Hennon, from St. Louis, Mo.

An interesting story to me is one which took place the night before
we actually took off.

As you probably remember the invision was postponed at the last minute
for 24 hours. We had already boarded our planes for take off at about
11:45 P.M., when we received word that the invasion was postponed.
We all [crossed out] xxx [end crossed out] went back to our area at Fullbeck (England airbase) and
of course no one could go to sleep. So [crossed out] xxxx [end crossed out] a group of us were
sitting together talking and turned on a radio that had been supplied
to us during our stay at Fullbeck (about 2 Wks.) We turn the dial
until we found some music, the records were mostly American dance
and it didn’t occur to us that the station wasn’t English. However
after several selections, this real femmine voice said "Hello, boys of
the 82nd AB Division, We know you are coming, We’ll be waitrng for
you" ........ You should have seen the look on everyone’s face..... It
was Berlin Betty.

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