It is so nice writing about this instead of the sad deaths of our Greatest Generation.
On D-Day, Harold Terens helped repair planes returning from France so they could rejoin the battle. He said half his company's pilots died that day. He went to France twelve days later and helped transfer captured Germans and newly released Allied POWs back to England.
To him, the Germans seemed happy that their war was over and they might survive it, but he was angered at how badly the Allied prisoners had been treated by the Germans.
Later he went on a secret mission. His planes hopscotched North Africa and eventually ended up in Tehran where he survived a robbery which left him naked in the desert until he was found by an American military police patrol.
He later learned the reason for the secret mission and that was that American bombers would fly from Britain to attack Axis targets in Eastern Europe. They wouldn't have enough fuel to return, but instead would fly to the Soviet Union. Terens job in the USSR was to feed the crews of those planes and get them ready to fly back to Britain.
--GreGen
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