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Charles J. Garvey, Jr. |
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| My father, Charles J. Garvey, Jr., was a Captain in the Army Air Corps. He flew a P-47 named Bessie. He was shot down over Belgium but was able to land his plane in a potato field. (We have pictures of the Germans loading it onto a flatbed truck. These were sent to him later by the families who hid him after he returned home.) Upon landing and after hiding til dark, the locals came to his rescue and gave him clothes, shoes and a watch and hid him for awhile in different houses, but someone in the underground turned him in. He was a POW in (if I'm not mistaken) Stalag Luft III for almost a yr 1/2. He was there til it was liberated. I don't know how he got these, but we have a few blurry black and white pictures of the camp. While he was there he wrote several diaries in thin blue booklets and also made another book of drawings which he bound in cardboard and a tin-can-and-dog-tag-chain closure. He drew caricatures of his bunk mates, the layout of the cabin and their bunk beds, them cooking food, playing cards, the food they ate, the food they longed for, the cigarettes they smoked, etc. He also made up recipes of food he wanted to eat when he got home and wrote songs and poems about flying. We still have all of his diaries and book and pictures, etc. We also have pictures of the families who hid him and one of him in the suit they gave him. They sent him these also after he returned home. We also have the names of other men who were hidden with him by these same families. This is only a little, but I wanted to let someone know or add his name to your list. Tonight I was doing some research online about the Army Air Corps and came across your site. I had no idea it existed. Sadly, my father died in 1980. I wish he was still alive to see this. Thanks! (pictures to come) |
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