Raymond overheard Re: news-876 on the Coconut Telegraph....
 JS> After over 50 years, some doctors want to make a study
 JS> of how the POW experience affected the lives of the
 JS> WW II POWs.  A bit late... Three of our 10 survive.
 JS> One in a hospice waiting to die...  I get a bit miffed
 JS> at these 50 year later characters....
I can understand your disgust.  All I know about the subject
is what i learned in High School, and later in the service,
Our school library had a large collection of autobiographies
and other non-fiction relating to the Prisoner Of War experience
in Germany and Japan {and other countries controlled by them} .
Two that stand out after all these years are the Colditz
Story, and the The Vaulting Horse, The latter the best example
of the Purloined Letter technique for hiding a tunnel enterance.
I may have the titles wrong, but I could locate the books if our
library here had them {they don't}. Another wonderful book is
"Most Secret" by Clayton Hutton, a description of the escape
and evasion aids constructed in WW II. Very informative, and
a topic shrouded in justifiable secrecy. There has been precious
little published about E&E, and the tools provided, but I have seen
faint hints that there are some "toys" out there.
... This BBS has achieved Air superiority.
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