Set free by the Germans

So we all got away, walked away and we all went as a group, we lined up and we marched back but we, a lot of the fellas took their shirts off and waved them you see, white shirts to let anybody coming this way know that we're a peaceful group. We, again, and again we had to go across over the bridge, you see. And there was René on the end of the bridge waiting for me and he took me to this other place that they had gone to hide and we stayed in that house until the next day and the next, and that day the Americans arrived with all their armour and all sorts of stuff. The Americans boys across the road they came out of hiding but they hadn't been taken the first time you see. If they had done a house-to-house search of not only our place but their place, there would have been three airmen in hiding, at least three airmen. And well it would have been a, maybe it would have been a whole different picture, we might have been shot. I don't think it was something that, I, I think it was an experience that very few people would have; I do have a great memory of it but I guess it's made me more aware of things that are not so good you know and how lucky I am.