My mate Spud and myself captured an American in the German army. He stayed behind in a hay loft. He claimed his dad was German his mum was an American. They were on holiday in Germany and he got called up because his dad was a German national.
His Mum told him when you get to the front give yourself up to the Americans. Ho could have been telling us a load of rubbish, but I believe him.
He was about a mile out!
When I think of the men i met. I sometimes wonder if they recall a nineteen year old on a warm summers night in August....1944?
Sapper