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Show RE B.ROBERT 0 R H7,20 2 when I was over France but I heard that in Germany som times th civilian w uld b so irate that they would tear you to pieces. There'd been instances of that. o I carri d this .45 with me. I also carried my wallet. Now you re supposed to leave your wall tat the base so when you get shot down and you're picked up, they don t have your wall t. Well, I didn't want to go through all the trouble of checking it in, checking it out, so I'd take my wallet with me. I thought, gee, I got this identity card here. So I tore it up into little pieces and couldn't find any place to throw it. It was right in the flat. These people were coming toward me about 200 yards away. I thought, "What am I going to do with this?" I told you I read about this spy that ate his papers. So I thought I'd do that. So I chewed on that thing and I thought, "Ah, this is nonsense! (laughs)." So I spit it out and I scattered the stuff around there. Of course, they come up. There were civilians and soldiers, and I was betting on that little, I think there was a sergeant and a non-com, and he was out in front. And I was rooting for him to come on and get to me first (laughs). BEN: So as soon as you touched down, you knew it was over for you? REE: Oh, yes. BEN: So you had no, you never even considered trying to ... REE: No. And I guess I wasn't quite, I got thinking later, you normally, I guess, when you surrender, are supposed to raise up your hands. I didn't think about that, so I guess I wasn't very on the ball about that. But this little sergeant came up to me, or corporal or whatever he was, said, "Your pistol, please." I pulled out my pistol and handed it to him. They pulled my watch off, my wallet, they even took my little pencil away from me. They decided, I guess, that it wasn't holding any secrets, so they gave it back to me. BEN: Did they pick up the papers you spit out? 57 |
