"Amazing story of WW2 hero who went beyond the..." Topic

… call of duty to rescue Prisoners of War.

"Touching down in the Suffolk countryside after 35 bombing missions, Captain Robert Trimble was free to go home.

The Second World War was coming to an end, his tour of duty was over and he could have flown back to his family in Pennsylvania, where his wife Eleanor had just given birth to a daughter.

But he didn't. Instead the 25-year-old airman signed up for a new mission which turned out to be his most dangerous of all.

He was secretly sent into Russian-held territory to rescue thousands of British and US prisoners of war who faced new danger from Joseph Stalin's Red Army.

He also saved hundreds of Jews left in deserted death camps and 400 French women raped and abused by the Nazis after being shipped east as forced labour…"
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Armand

My favourite is Charles Coward
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"He managed to make two escape attempts before even reaching a prisoner of war camp, then made seven further escapes; on one memorable occasion managing to be awarded the Iron Cross while posing as a wounded soldier in a German Army field hospital."
"Determined to do something about it, Coward used Red Cross supplies, particularly chocolate, to "buy" from the SS guards corpses of dead prisoners, including Belgian and French civilian forced labourers, He then gave the documents and clothes taken from the non-Jewish corpses to the Jewish escapees, who adopted these new identities and were then smuggled out of the camp altogether. Coward carried out this scheme on numerous occasions and is estimated to have saved at least 400 Jewish slave labourers."

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Armand

Interesting.

For a man named Coward, he had some balls.

Ha!Ha!Ha!…

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Armand