The Great Escape (WW II in France)

 This link tells the amazing story was written late in 1944 by USAAF 2nd Lt Bernard Koller "Barney" to help explain to his friends what had happened to him during the three months he was in France.             

2nd Lt Koller was a Navigator with the 493rd BG based at Debach, Suffolk. His story takes us from the parachuting out from the stricken B-24 Liberator "Sweet Job" that crashed at La Bodinais near Lanrelas in the Côtes d'Armor departement in Brittany on the 8th June 1944 down to the south west of France around Angoulême in the Charente. He was picked up, looked after and fought alongside the maquis group of Jacques Nancy, the Section Spéciale de Sabotage until he and around 40 other allied airmen where returned to England on two USAAF Dakotas from Feytiat aerodrome near Limoges on the night of 2nd/3rd September 1944.

2nd Lt Bernard Koller - his story (my 3rd cousin once removed)

This is the link to his story.