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It was an amazing feat of courage by him crossing the St Lawrence river in the winterActually Lanc he did not escape from England but rather Canada. He was shipped to Canada with other POWs in Jan 1941 and jumped from a train and crossed the border into the USA which was still neutral at the time. He turned himself into immigration authorities and they were doing to send him back to Canada but the Germand Consulate helped him get to Mexico where he took a ship to Spain and went through France and returned to Germany.
He was the only German aviator to escape from an allied camp. There were other German soldiers that did escape.
Many met American women and later married them...QUOTE]
This is kinda how I ended up with a British mother and an American father - USAF... hehe. Burtonwood AB...
When my father brought my mother to USA he had failed to tell her that HIS mother was German/Dutch... My mom and my dads mom didn't hit it off too well... My moms house had been bombed out Christmas 1940 in the Manchester blitz, and my grandmothers' kin in Holland and Germany... well, no one ever found them - thanks to "Bomber Harris."