The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28
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airmen as they parachutcd from wrecked planes.
 Inc Americans also said that all Germans with whom they talked, including members of the army, were praying for the end of the war and predicting that it would come during the first or second month of io4l.
 rho Americans first told their stories upon their arrival at Liver pool Tuesday from Germany by way of Sweden, but American cen- sorship prevented their publication
 Sergeant Benjamin Spring of Denver, who was sht down near Hamburg during the Anglo Amer ican 'blitz" on Germany's second city July 24-August q, said German civilians stoned him and other cap- tiired American air1nen and threw hot coffee over them.
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 The station announcer at the Hamburg Depot, where the seven or eight Americans were being moved to camp, broadcast over loud speaker that the prisoners were American flyers.
 "They threw stones ct us, cursed us both in German and English and spat on us," Spring said.
 Guards told the prisoners they would give them their guns if civ. ilians attempted to shoot the flyers, Spring said. One man raised his hand to hit Spring, he said, but c soldier intervened.
 lieutenant Paul Blank of st. Louis, Mo-, navigator on the Fort ress 'Butch", was hit by Q stone, Spring said.
 Stan Sergeant Milton Williams of Omaha, who bailed out near Bre- men, said he was surrounded by Q dozen angry Germans when he landed.
 "several of them had guns and threatened to shoot me-" he said. T was saved by Q member of the Luftwaffe ground forces"
 Williams said the German doc- tors at the military hospital to which he was removed handled him so roughly that he became uncon. scious from pain.
 Let Them Think Some Germans with whom VII Hams talked thought the American bolnbers had come all the way from the United States to bomb Germany 80 he 'let lem keep on thinking that"
 Goodwin, who told of reports that civilians had shot at parachuting airmen, said he rode through Ham. burg enroute to Q German port to be exchanged.
 "The city was flat for miles everywhere I looked" he said.
 '"The civilians there l1ooted us and sometimes threw stones at the train".
 Staff Sgt. Lester Miller of (S7 Laurel street) Hartford, Conn., was shot down over Holland. He was treated well there, he said, but was "spat upon once or twice" in Ger many.
 "Scowls and dirty looks were com- mon, but we were not subjected to any actual acts of violence" he said.
 Tech. Sgt. Frank J. Bartnicli of Moosic, Pa., said he was not given any medical aid for Q week after landing in Germany though his in. jurieS were critical.
 Pfc. Herbert Enrich of Brooklyn, N. F., who was captured in Sicily, said German SildierS with whom he talked in Naples expected the war 'xvsG 9xeu 70 9uJuTSeq eu3 % pus O
 Second Lieut.. Glen Harrington of Ogden, Utah, Q fortress navigator, said the Germans at the hospital where he was treated kept telling him the war lis no good"
 London, Oct. 28-(UP)-Tech. Sgt. Norman Goodwin of Bradford, Mass, who was among the Arneri. car airmen repatriated from Ger many this week, said today that he was punished in Q German prison hospital for heiling President Roose. welt.
 T was walking through the ward when Q German patient sat up in bed and said, American swine" Goodwin said. T replied, That's right. Hell Rooseveltl"
 Goodwin said he was reprimanded severely and, among other things, deprived of the privilege of taking bath for several weeks. @-