At one of the retirement homes I work at a veteran has typed out his story of the Second World War. I read it this week.
He signed up in the spring of '44 and had been shot down over Germany by November. He spent 7 days hiding in rural Germany until he was caught and spent the rest of the war being shipped around to prisoner of war camps in eastern Europe. As a tail gunner in a Halifax bomber, he and the pilot were the only survivors, although he didn't know what had happened to the plane and crew until he saw the pilot at a prisoner of war camp. The pilot thought everyone else was dead because the bombers fuel tanks had exploded.
He became a doctor and is now retired, we usually talk about fishing but sometimes he'll mention a bit of his war experience.