D-Day Photos Then, And Now.

[skycat 6,173]

Thanks: here's a story he told me: during an air raid somewhere in Holland, my dad was in a farmhouse and the farmer came rushing in saying one of his cows had a turnip stuck in its gullet, or somewhere, and the cow was blowing up like balloon with gas. My dad drove miles through the air raid to fetch the vet who was hiding under a table, drove him back to stick the cow in its stomach to release the gas: he was more concerned in saving that cow than worrying about his own skin!

 

Another time, he was in the Black Forest, and came across a German family who had built a tree house where they'd spent the whole war. They were anti-Nazi, but couldn't get out of the country, so hid and lived off the land as best they could. My dad used to take them rations whilst he was stationed in the area. Said they were lovely people who had built themselves an amazing tree house: apparently they'd survived the whole war in the forest.