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Russell Margerison writes of the dangerous but strangely unreal
world of the air gunner, sitting high in the turret of a bomber
over Europe, wrapped in several layers of clothes and awed by the
destructive beauty of the scene below. His role was to keep a look
out for enemy fighters and to take a shot at them if they gave him
the chance. After many raids Margerison's plane was shot down.
Weeks on the run with the Belgian underground were followed by many
months of captivity in Germany. He describes the events of January
1945 when for eighteen days nearly 1500 prisoners were marched
through blizzards to another camp, surviving on an inch of soup a
day. A few months later, the prisoners' new camp was 'liberated' by
the Russians and he made his way home across a devastated Europe.
When Russell Margerison came home to Lancashire, he was still six
months short of his twenty-first birthday. This edition includes a
sequel telling of his return, fifty-nine years after he was shot
down, to visit the Belgians who risked everything to help him.
Russell Margerison writes of the dangerous but strangely unreal
world of the Air Gunner, sitting high in the turret of a bomber
over Europe, wrapped in several layers of clothes and awed by the
destructive beauty of the scene below. His role was to keep a look
out for enemy fighters and to take a shot at them if they gave him
the chance. After many raids his plane was shot down. The author
tells of his weeks on the run with the Belgian underground,
followed by many months of captivity in Germany. He describes the
long march of January 1945 when for 18 days nearly 1500 prisoners
were marched through blizzards to another camp, surviving on an
inch of soup a day. A few months later, the prisoners' new camp was
'liberated' by the Russians. The sequel added to the second edition
tells of his return to Belgium many years after the War.
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