Post by Soutpeel on Jun 17, 2017 13:27:13 GMT 7
British World War Two hero reveals how he introduced fried EGGS to the French
AN RAF Bomber Command veteran has revealed the incredible story of how he escaped the Nazis and on his way home introduced the French nation to fried eggs on toast.
Thomas Maxwell, 93, is one of the last surviving rear gunners of WW2 known as the ‘tail end Charlies’.
He parachuted out of his Lancaster bomber when it was hit by flak at 8,000ft returning from a raid on Stuttgart in March 1944.
Five crewmen were captured but the remaining three, including Mr Maxwell, then aged 19, managed to escape.
A local family hid him at their farm in Bazancourt nr Reims for ten days.
Each morning Mr Maxwell said he was brought bread, cheese and a glass of red wine by the farmer’s wife, Mdme Tancre de Maertens.
But one day he decided to cheekily ask - using sign language - for his favourite fried egg on toast.
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/818074/Fried-eggs-on-toast-World-War-II-France-Britain-Thomas-Maxwell
AN RAF Bomber Command veteran has revealed the incredible story of how he escaped the Nazis and on his way home introduced the French nation to fried eggs on toast.
Thomas Maxwell, 93, is one of the last surviving rear gunners of WW2 known as the ‘tail end Charlies’.
He parachuted out of his Lancaster bomber when it was hit by flak at 8,000ft returning from a raid on Stuttgart in March 1944.
Five crewmen were captured but the remaining three, including Mr Maxwell, then aged 19, managed to escape.
A local family hid him at their farm in Bazancourt nr Reims for ten days.
Each morning Mr Maxwell said he was brought bread, cheese and a glass of red wine by the farmer’s wife, Mdme Tancre de Maertens.
But one day he decided to cheekily ask - using sign language - for his favourite fried egg on toast.
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/818074/Fried-eggs-on-toast-World-War-II-France-Britain-Thomas-Maxwell
