From the May 20, 2012 stuff.co.nz "Kiwi WWII hero dies" by Max Lambert.
Phil Lamason, a New Zealand bomber pilot saved a large group of Allied airmen from going to Buchenwald Concentration Camp died May 19, 2012, at the age of 93.
He was the senior officer of 168 Allied airmen and in August 1944 risked his life to get word to the Luftwaffe after finding out the Gestapo had ordered them executed.
On October 19th, Luftwaffe officers arrived and demanded the Allied men's release and took took them to Sagan, a regular POW camp.
The majority of the Allied airmen had been shot down in France and were trying to escape in civilian clothes which the Gestapo considered as spying.
Of the 168 men: 2 were from New Zealand, 9 Australians, 29 Canadians, 47 British and 81 Americans. Two of them died of sickness.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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