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Lewis Chow

"If you’re caught as a spy, they don’t take prisoner of war, they would just shoot you. Or use just sword. It was a dangerous job when you’re a secret agent."

James Moffat | Timmins, Ontario

"So 60 miles an hour towards this bridge. And the Germans open up. And I swear, they fired six shots about four feet to our left and you could hear the tearing of the shots as they went by."

Allan Smith | Beaverton, Ontario

"So we got out of there and arrived at Stalag III. Now, that was a real Sunday school compared with Buchenwald."

Richard Dutka | Slawa, Alberta

"He told me in German, 'der Krieg ist für Sie zu Ende'. The first real words in German that I understood: the war is over for you."

Joseph Gautreau | Dieppe, New Brunswick

"But the knot where I tied it up at the top, I couldn’t undo it. And I’m trying to do this and I heard somebody walking around. I’m thinking, holy geez, I just got here and the Germans are after me already."

Charles Lepine | St. Anne De Bellevue, Quebec

"And I went right through a tree. The tree was alone in the middle of a large field. How in the world could this happen, to go right through that tree."

Dietrich Puetter | Bonn, Germany

"And I made an emergency landing on the street in a little village. And belly landing and we all were, we were all wounded but we all came out alive."

Douglas Haynes | Clevedon, Somerset, United Kingdom

"I remember that we all had to muck in and do the best of a bad job. Well, I remember Harry Dodd, George Keane, Robert Aldus, and Monkman. A different group of men and different characters, but we were a cheerful lot in the long run."