Arrived at Basseterre, St. Kitts, at 0700 and 172 nautical miles from St. Thomas. Everyone enjoying the shopping and strolling just off the pier. Everyone
It was January, 1945, and bitterly cold. We were prisoners of war struggling along a snow-covered road in Czechoslovakia. Some had been in prison camps since the fall of France, others like myself since the Dieppe raid. Now the Germans had us on the move to keep us from being liberated by the fast-moving Russian army. Already we had crossed the Oder and Elbe rivers and the Sudeten mountains.
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