HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 2016-06-01, Page 15Noel Flagg's story
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The captain gave Flagg a
cigarette and had him taken
away. Guards led him off the
road a little ways and then
off to the bushes on the side.
Flagg figured they were
going to shoot him, until he
heard a voice coming from
under the branches.
When he looked under the
tress, he saw the rest of his
platoon, who were captured
when they ray out of
ammunition.
The prisoners were loaded
onto a truck and were being
driven to town, when an
American plan flower over,
mistook the prisoner truck
for something else, and
starting firing. Two Canadi-
ans and two British soldiers
died, as well as "one stupid
German standing out front
of the truck shooting the
plane with a pistol':
The bodies were buried and
when the planes disappeared.
Flagg said the truck contin-
ued, taking the prisoners to
Anna. There they would cross
the Straights of Messina and
be put on another trick and
taken to Campo 66.
When other members of his
platoon were shipped out,
Flagg and Clarence Cook, a
friend and member of his pla-
toon, stayed to cook for three
Canadian and three British
officers who were also
prisoners.
Eventually Flagg and Cook
were released when the Ital-
ians surrendered. The officers
left Italy, but Flagg and Cook
went to the Vatican to see if
they could find a way back to
their lines, However since
there was a German embassy
there, a priest told them to go
elsewhere for help.
Since Flagg had yellow
jaundice and Cook had desert
sores, they were put in a police
hospital and were there for
three weeks before German
soldiers took over the
hospital.
When the German officer
walked into their hospital
room, Flagg and Cook cov-
ered up and when the Ger-
man asked them a question
by saying "no capito" (I don't
understand). Unfortunately
for all the Canadians, all of
their information was on
charts at the end of the bad, so
they were recaptured.
They were taken to a Ger-
man prison camp where
Flagg wound up cutting hair
for German soldiers, includ-
ing the camp commander.
He was given cigarettes and
a hot meal in exchange.
The two Canadian soldiers
were moved from prison
camp to prison camp and
were also put in labour
camps, eventually landing in
Poland.
When the Russians
advanced, the prisoners
were pulled out of Poland
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and as they crossed back
into Germany, the bridge
was blown up behind them.
There were part of the death
march in which hundreds of
soldiers died marching back
to Germany in minus 40
degree weather.
The two Canadians were
held in at least six prison
camps during the war. Even-
tually they were held in a
hayloft about a mile from
Czechoslovakia.
During the night, Flagg
climbed down the hayloft
ladder to use the bathroom
and noticed the two young
German guards were gone.
He saw a light on inside the
nearby farmhouse and saw
them drinking coffee with
two young German girls.
Flag told Cook and the two
ran for the Czech border.
In Czechoslovakia, the two
soldiers found a member of
the underground who were
helping prisoners escape
from the Germans. They
waited out the end of the war
in a village about 100 miles
outside of Prague, staying
with a couple.
When Russians passed
through the village, they
explained that they were
Canadian and were trying to
escape the country.
The Russians agreed to
take Flagg and Cook to
Prague and from there they
eventually made their way
back to Scotland.
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