[Cowgirl of Justice]

There was a recent program on the History Channel about US airmen who were captured and put in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

It was an amazing story about the survival of these brave Americans. If you can, please watch this. I cannot even begin to describe the fear, heartbreak and then extreme pride at the bravery of these fine men.

God Bless them all.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Here is a website on the show.

http://www.lostairmen.com/

The documentary is entitled The Lost Men of Buchenwald.

[BooBoo1000]

In the first part of the airwar we did not have a fighter that could carry enough fuel to escort the bombers all the way into Germany. Usually some place over France the Bombers would be on their own. I had a good friend who went to England with the first squadron of P-51’s. He said their favorite trick was to clime up into the sun and wait for the Luftwaffe to show up then dive behind them. He said the first thing the Germans would try was to climb away but they could not climb fast enough, next thing was to dive, no good, every time the Germans looked back all they say was the great big 13 foot prop drawing closer and closer.