- “Adjutants Call” by Paul E. Kennedy. His memoirs as a bombardier on a B-17 in WWII can be found on the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society website here.
- “A Dutchman in Hiding in Belgium,” (“Een Hollander ondergedoken in België”) by Nico Hamme: http://www.dossier-bassines.nl/html/nl_home.htm (English: http://www.dossier-bassines.nl/html/en_home.htm
- “A Higher Call” – Encounter between Charlie Brown, USAAF, and Franz Stigler, Luftwaffe: http://www.valorstudios.com/a-higher-call-book.htm (In French, “A Higher Call…1943, un miracle dans le ciel!”: http://www.gatsbyonline.com/main.aspx?page=text&id=40&cat=aviation
- “Amazing War Story of Alfe Martin” (BBC): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11730844
- Art Starratt’s World War II Experiences: http://www.awspow.net/
- Behind the Wire – Allied Airmen in Captivity in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL5kU91pWK4&list=PLfO3-TNAQN-paJ3iZVjxoYVJtJ0yUlAQ_&index=22&t=0s. This is an excellent documentary produced by the 8th Air Force Historical Society in association with RAF Bomber Command. It uses WWII footage and modern interviews to depict Allied bombers being shot down, airmen describing being shot down and Luftwaffe interviewing them, others describing evading capture, interviews with their helpers, POW camp experiences, and “The Great Escape”.
- Breitenbach, Tech. Sgt. Louis H., USAAF Memoirs: http://resources21.kb.nl/gvn/EVDO01/pdf/EVDO01_ROE01_133.pdf. Describes his experiences, including being shot down, helped by Dutch civilians, capture, POW camps. It begins with Dutch text but most is in English.
- Clemons, Frank. Tribute to Frank Clemons, pilot, and the crew of the B17 “Battling Bee”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhw9yqVqsYo&feature=youtu.be
- Code Burgundy, The Long Escape, by John Katsaros, is available at the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Association website at: http://www.airforceescape.com/reports.html
- Flying High Publishing has a series of interviews with WWII veterans of the RAF: http://www.fightinghigh.com/videos.htm
- “Freedom fighter: Spokane’s Carla Peperzak protected fellow Jews through Dutch Resistance during World War II”: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jan/25/freedom-fighter/
- “Heroes at Home” by Edouard Renière, experiences of a boy in Brussels during WWII:http://carol_fus.tripod.com/home_hero_ed_reniere.html. For an updated version of the above, entitled “A Young Boy and the ‘Good War’ War,” click on Ed Renière’s autobiographical account elsewhere on this website at https://wwii-netherlands-escape-lines.com/personal-narratives/a-young-boy-and-the-good-war-2/.
- He Who Dares Wins, Across the Pyrenees to Freedom, Diary of Chanan (Hans) Flörsheim, 1923-1944. English translation:http://www.hassia-judaica.de/Lebenswege/English/Floersheim_Hans_Chanan_English/ChananFloersheim_He_Who_Dares_Wins.pdf German edition: http://www.hassia-judaica.de/Lebenswege/Deutsch/Floersheim_Hans_Chanan/Chanan_Floersheim_ebook.pdf
- History Documented: http://www.historydocumented.com/
- Library of Congress Veterans History Project: http://www.loc.gov/vets/. An example of the Library of Congress interviews is the one of Laurence E. Grauerholz at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.60481/
- Long Journey Home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyoMa70i7tg. About Willem Hamminga’s round the world trip to reach England and fly against the Germans.
- Monte San Martino Trust: http://www.msmtrust.org.uk/. For their escape stories in Italy, go to: http://www.msmtrust.org.uk/escape-stories/.
- “My Stories of World War II” by Virgil R. Marco, Sr.: http://web.archive.org/web/20110714033228/http://www.marcolowe.com/vrmsr/index.html
- Ralph McKee, Navigator, B-17 , 42-5053: http://giraudeau.pagesperso-orange.fr/uspage10.htm.
- Redditch war hero’s amazing story finally comes to light, story of W.O. Arthur Digby Clayton: http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/news/9069281.Redditch_war_hero_s_amazing_story_finally_comes_to_light/
- Remembering the War Years: http://www.kilroywashere.org/
- Stan Munns’ memoirs on BBC – Part 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/97/a8859397.shtml
- Stan Munns’ Memoirs on BBC- Part 2:http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a8861583.shtml
- “Two Gold Coins and a Prayer,” the story of Lt. Col. James H. Keeffe, Appell Publishing: http://www.appellpublishing.com/
- “Uncle Jack” with Gary Sinise, Sleeping Dog Productions, Green Lake, WI: http://www.sleepingdogtv.com/reel/Uncle-Jack.aspx. Actor Gary Sinise arranges for his Uncle Jack, a WWII B-17 navigator, to fly again on a B-17.
- “Unexpected Adventure in Europe” (experiences of RCAF airmen Arthur Bowlby and Al Dungey) by Geoff Bowlby: http://bowlby.pbworks.com/w/page/7832942/Unexpected%20Adventure%20in%20Europe.
- Van Alderwerelt Family Recollections: http://www.vanalderwerelt.name/recollections.asp. In “Recollections 1929-1952” and “Postscript to Recollections 1929-1952,” Dan van Alderwerelt recounts his memories of WWII in The Netherlands. He was 10 years old when the Germans invaded, 15 when they were driven out.
- Van Herten, Ria Reuten, “The War Record of My Parents, Frits van Herten and Mien Reulen, 1939-1945″: http://www.maasniel.nl/Geschiedenis/wo2/dagboeken/van_Herten_Reuten/De_oorlog%20van_Frits_en_Mien_van_Herten_Reulen.htm
- Vintage Wings of Canada has stories of RCAF airmen’s experiences: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx
- When the Sky Rains Heroes: Military Aviators in Their Own Words,” Sleeping Dog Productions, Green Lake, WI: http://www.sleepingdogtv.com/reel/When-the-Sky.aspx
- World War II Stories in Their Own Words: http://carol_fus.tripod.com/
- Wouter Bosch Resists WWII Nazis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7R964sBUs&NR=1
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