Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

LA PLUME DE DIEU

Malgré ces horizons ténébreux, l’impitoyable réalité de la guerre en 1943 a très peu atteint Haldensleben. La plupart des jeunes hommes sont partis vers l’est, perdus dans des défaites nord-africaines ou en danger en Italie. Les camions de l’armée traversent en grondant la ville tous feux éteints et les locomotives de ravitaillement halètent dans la gare de triage. Cependant, la ville elle-même est rarement visitée par les horreurs de la guerre totale. Malgré cette isolation, Ernst Heuer, âgé de 15 ans, n’a jamais connu le sommeil profond d’un adolescent.

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

THE HAND OF GOD

Despite the night horizons, the harsh reality of war rarely came to Haldensleben in 1943. Most of the young men were gone to the east or lost to North African failures. Darkened army trucks rumbled through town and supply locos panted in the rail yard, but the town was rarely visited by the horrors of total war. Despite this distance, 15-year old Ernst Heuer never slept the sleep of a teenager.

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FISHING FOR HALIBAGS

It was three months after VE Day and the crew of an RAF Handley Page Halifax (LW170) set out on a long distance weather patrol out over the Atlantic approaches to the British Isles. Sometime during the flight, the war-weary Halifax …

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RESURRECTION

In the dark of the night on 2 August 1943, Royal Air Force pilot, Flight Sergeant John Alwyn “Pee Wee” Phillips, DFM, turned to his Flight Engineer, Royal Canadian Air Force Sergeant Herbert C. McLean, nodding that he was ready…

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