Escape to Freedom
An Airman's Tale of Capture, Escape and Evasion
Published on 3. July 2007
224 pages
978-1-78337-930-9 (ISBN)
Description
A firsthand account of a World War II crewman in the 427 (Lion) Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force who was captured by the Nazis and became a POW.
On his third operational mission, Tony Johnson was shot down in his Wellington bomber. Captured shortly after, he was interrogated in Dulag Luft before being sent to Stalag Luft 1 on the Baltic where he stayed from April to September 1944. As the noose tightened on Germany, Tony and his fellow kriegies were kept on the move.
He describes the increasingly harsh conditions they all endured, including the infamous Long March of the winter of 1945. He twice escaped, the second time successfully, reaching the Allied Second Army.
On his third operational mission, Tony Johnson was shot down in his Wellington bomber. Captured shortly after, he was interrogated in Dulag Luft before being sent to Stalag Luft 1 on the Baltic where he stayed from April to September 1944. As the noose tightened on Germany, Tony and his fellow kriegies were kept on the move.
He describes the increasingly harsh conditions they all endured, including the infamous Long March of the winter of 1945. He twice escaped, the second time successfully, reaching the Allied Second Army.
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Person
Tony Johnson is a household name in New Zealand as a rugby commentator, TV sports presenter, rugby writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. He has covered Test match, Super Rugby and domestic rugby in New Zealand since 1987 as well as a variety of other sports from the Olympics and Commonwealth games to golf and tennis. He lives in Auckland. Lynn McConnell is one of New Zealand's foremost sports historians with over 17 books to his name. He is the editor in New Zealand of the website sportal.co.nz and has an extensive career in newspaper journalism having been Sports Editor of The Evening Post in Wellington and earlier the Sports Editor of the Southland Times in Invercargill. He lives in Auckland.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 Nasty Prang
- Chapter 2 Duisburg
- Chapter 3 Maximum Effort - Manheim
- Chapter 4 Earning a Caterpillar
- Chapter 5 Steve is Killed
- Chapter 6 Interrogation at Dulag-Luft
- Chapter 7 Stammlager-Luft I, Barth
- Chapter 8 V2 Rocket Testing at Peenemünde
- Chapter 9 Stammlager-Luft VI, Heydekrug, Königsberg
- Chapter 10 Happy Twenty-First Birthday
- Chapter 11 Cruising in the Hell Ship Insterberg
- Chapter 12 Stammlager-Luft IV, Pomerania
- Chapter 13 Force March 400 Miles to Fallingbostel
- Chapter 14 Dodging the Enemy on Lüneburg Heath
- Chapter 15 Punting on the River Aller
- Chapter 16 Care and Attention from the 53rd Welsh Division
- Postscript
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
