AUSTIN, Basil Harvey (Bunny) - Urszula - (Hardcover)

 Book still in good condition - Message inside signed by the author [He was, of course, known as Bunny Austin]  >>>  This has to do with a humanitarian effort carried out by No.31 Squadron SAAF at low level - Lieutenant B. H. Austin was the wireless operator and gunner of a South African Liberator aircraft that crashed near Warsaw in the early hours of August 15, 1944 while dropping supplies to the beleagured Polish soldiers during the fateful Warsaw Uprising of 1944. - Just before 1 AM on the morning of Augustus 15  the Liberator was coned by searchlights. Six flak guns opened up, found their target and began pumping destruction into the aircraft. With two engines out of commission and the aircraft ablaze, Captain Van Eyssen gave the command to abandon the Liberator. – Austin  later took refuge in a girl’s convent where he was tended by members of the Polish underground army. When movements were heard outside an alert was sounded at the approach of a German patrol and Austin was hidden in the bed of a twelve-year-old girl, Urszula Stupik. - Next morning Austin was guided to a Russian field post where he  gave himself up.  Four other crew members also survived while three others were killed – The  survivors had to suffer days of intense interrogation at the hands of the Russians before being flown on to Moscow where they were handed over to No. 30 British Mission. - When the war ended Bunny Austin went back to his job at the Public Works Department in Pretoria. Tragically, as with so many others, Bunny found it difficult to settled down and he grew restless with the nagging urge to go back to the scene of his rescue. He yearned to once again meet the Poles who had helped him, particularly the partisan leader who had risked his life in leading him to the Russian field post. He also wanted to trace Urszula Stupik, the twelve-year-old girl who had saved his life by hiding him in her bed. He was determined to repay the debt of gratitude he owed this young girl who would have suffered a fate worse than death had the Germans discovered him that night. Now buy the book and read it all.    * World War 2 * Escapes * 

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