ALVIN H. HENDERSON
Escape and Evasion Report |
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NO. REPORT 911 |
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house
to search it. I walked right past the officers as they were
standing in the yard. I said "Bon Jour" to them, shook hands
with the French couple and walked away. The Germans were using
the lower floor for an interrogation center. I heard them
interrogating American prisoners taken in the PONRARCY [sic] area.
From what I could hear through the floors the German interrogators
could not get any of the American prisoners to talk. He
sounded pretty disgusted with all of them. |
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AUGUST HEARS AMERICAN FIRE |
about 2
August the German front line troops began retiring. There were
so many German troops dropping in at the house that I moved out into
the fields and hid out in a thicket. On the morning of 3
August I heard rifle fire and knew that that the American lines were
getting near. The Frenchman came up at daybreak to see me and
together we went out to contact the Americans. We found the
3rd Bn of the 116th Inf, and I was taken to e questioned by
intelligence officers all the way up to Corps. |
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Compiled by |
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Approved by |
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LEVIN H. LUIETEN
Major, INF |
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W S HOLT
Lt Col, AC
Commanding |
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"A" Distribution
No Appendix "B" |
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APPENDIX "B"
I was
briefed on escape by my own officers in England,
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