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It’s nice to finally get a chance to speak with you George. George Hauck with me today and welcome him to A Little Touch of History.ī. George and Adelaide will celebrate their 67 th wedding anniversary on July 25, 2009.ī. Their daughter Arlene also lives in the area while her sister Gay lives in New Jersey.
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George was evacuated to France by mid-May, 1944 and shipped home a short time later.Ĭurrently George and his wife Adelaide live in Punta Gorda, Florida. He spent a little over 5 months there until the Russians liberated the camp in early May, 1945. He was captured that same day and eventually imprisoned in Stalag Luft 1 in Barth, Germany (a prison camp for American and British air force officers) where he was assigned to the North Compound 3, Barracks 5 (Block 305) Room 11. George and the rest of the crew had to bail out while still over Germany. With only 50 miles to go, the plane was hit by German anti-aircraft flack and caught fire. The attack took his crew over Merseburg, Germany and after a successful run they were returning to their home base at Thurleigh, England. On Novemhe was aboard a B-17 on his first bombing mission over Germany. But as his training was an ‘alternate’ approach to the standard way bombing runs were planned back then, this ‘new approach’ did not find favor and was eventually scrubbed. She informed me that he was one of several officers originally trained (around 1943-44) to participate in the atomic bomb attacks on Japan in 1945. George’s daughter Arlene Berry contacted me about her father and his honorable past. George is a retired WWII veteran, 2 nd Lieutenant from the 8 th Air Force Group (nicknamed “The Mighty Eighth”).
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Well, on March 14, 2009, I enjoyed over an hour of excellent conversation with just such a person.