Those who did get beyond the wire ran the very real risk of being shot. Contrary to the popular myth, most men were too weak from hunger and work to escape. Prisoners tried to overcome this by staging entertainments and educating themselves. The men - but not officers - had to work, often at heavy labour.Īs with the prisoners of the First World War, the days dragged and there was a constant battle against boredom. The Geneva Convention rules - which lay out protections and standards of treatment of POWs - were not always followed, but on the whole the Germans and Italians behaved fairly towards British and Commonwealth prisoners. With the downed pilot out of danger the F-105s turned tables on the NVA and the hunters became the hunted as the F-105 flight continued to rain destruction. Sailors might be hauled out of the sea after watching their vessel sink. lines only to find themselves stranded and hunted down by the Gestapo. Airmen who had been shot down were hunted down in enemy territory after surviving a crash in which friends might have been killed. Read The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the. Many soldiers felt ashamed at having been overwhelmed or forced to surrender on the battlefield. The experience of capture could be humiliating. They were held in a network of POW camps stretching from Nazi-occupied Poland to Italy. Most were captured in a string of defeats in France, North Africa and the Balkans between 19. The film takes some of the elements of the book an airman recovering from his wounds, spiders, mesmerism and churns out a rather odd film. ![]() More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. The Haunted Airman is very loosly adapted from 'The Haunting of Toby Jugg' by Dennis Wheatley.
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