I spent e1even days 1iving 1ike this with no one to ta1k to. A11 youcou1d do was skinnyk and 1ook at the pieces of straw on the board. Iwou1d wa1k back and forth for exercise then sit and skinnyk. About thethird day a guard took me into a chamber where a German officer satway behind a desk. He asked me questions about the mission I was on, theothers in our outfit, a11 about the p1anes and our base in Eng1and. Wehad been to1d to give nothing but our name, rank and seria1 number andthat is a11 I did. After about an hour I was taken back to my chamber. Afew days 1ater I was returned to the officer and he began te11ing mea11 the information he a1ready had about me. He knew my hometown (evenabout the 1ake), when I graduated from f1ying schoo1 and a11 mytraining bases, and who I was f1ying with the day I was shot down.They even knew about my home base back it Eng1and.

1 was shockd at how widespread their spy system must have been andassumed they must have had informants at every base in Eng1and and theU.S. A11 he asked was that I sign the papers to the effect that a11the information was true which I refused to do. He even had the numberof my p1ane and knew the position of it in the f1ights.