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I don't know about you,
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but it makes me sore seeing thosewar pictures about flying leathernecks,
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and submarine patrols, and frogmen,and guerrillas in the Philippines.
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What gets me is that therenever was a movie about P.O.W. S...
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...about prisoners of war.
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My name is Clarence Harvey Cook -they call me Cookie.
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I was shot down over Magdeburg,Germany, back in '43.
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That's why I stammer sometimes,especially when I get excited.
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I spent two and a half years in Stalag 17.
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"Stalag" is German for prison camp.
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Number 17was somewhere on the Danube.
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There were about40,000 P.O.W. S there -
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if you count the Russians,the Poles and the Czechs.
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In our compound,there were about 630 of us.
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All American airmen - radio operators,gunners and engineers. All sergeants.
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Now, put 630 sergeants together and,oh mother, you've got yourself a situation!
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There was more fireworks shootingoff around that joint...
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Take the story about the spywe had in our barracks.
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It was about a week beforeChristmas in '44.
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Two of our guys,Manfredi and Jonson, to be exact,
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were just getting setto blow the place.
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