David Ghetty Harrington enlisted in the Army Air Corps on Dec 31, 1941. While on a bombing mission over Germany, his plane was shot down. He was held as a POW the duration of the war. His reported date of capture was July 17, 1943. His pelvis was broken after he parachuted down... his fellow prisoners kept him for freezing by laying their bodies next to his.
F.Sgt Harrington was the radio operator in a bomber that was shot down after a raid on Naples on 17th July 1943. Of the crew of ten, eight managed to bale out of the plane. Harrington however broke his hip on landing by parachute. He was taken to a jail in Avellino and thence to the hospital in the same town. He and a crew mate were then sent by train to POW Camp PG78 in Fonte d'Amore, just outside Sulmona, Abruzzo. From here he was transferred to the Civil Hospital in Sulmona, on an unknown date, where on 9th October he was one of four to escape from a second floor window. He was then hidden in a series of hiding places in and around Sulmona by the Italian Resistance. However on or about 14th December he was possibly betrayed, recaptured and sent north to Germany as a POW for the remainder of the war.
F.Sgt Harrington was the radio operator in a bomber that was shot down after a raid on Naples on 17th July 1943. Of the crew of ten, eight managed to bale out of the plane. Harrington however broke his hip on landing by parachute. He was taken to a jail in Avellino and thence to the hospital in the same town. He and a crew mate were then sent by train to POW Camp PG78 in Fonte d'Amore, just outside Sulmona, Abruzzo. From here he was transferred to the Civil Hospital in Sulmona, on an unknown date, where on 9th October he was one of four to escape from a second floor window. He was then hidden in a series of hiding places in and around Sulmona by the Italian Resistance. However on or about 14th December he was possibly betrayed, recaptured and sent north to Germany as a POW for the remainder of the war.
David Ghetty Harrington enlisted in the Army Air Corps on Dec 31, 1941. While on a bombing mission over Germany, his plane was shot down. He was held as a POW the duration of the war. His reported date of capture was July 17, 1943. His pelvis was broken after he parachuted down... his fellow prisoners kept him for freezing by laying their bodies next to his.
F.Sgt Harrington was the radio operator in a bomber that was shot down after a raid on Naples on 17th July 1943. Of the crew of ten, eight managed to bale out of the plane. Harrington however broke his hip on landing by parachute. He was taken to a jail in Avellino and thence to the hospital in the same town. He and a crew mate were then sent by train to POW Camp PG78 in Fonte d'Amore, just outside Sulmona, Abruzzo. From here he was transferred to the Civil Hospital in Sulmona, on an unknown date, where on 9th October he was one of four to escape from a second floor window. He was then hidden in a series of hiding places in and around Sulmona by the Italian Resistance. However on or about 14th December he was possibly betrayed, recaptured and sent north to Germany as a POW for the remainder of the war.
F.Sgt Harrington was the radio operator in a bomber that was shot down after a raid on Naples on 17th July 1943. Of the crew of ten, eight managed to bale out of the plane. Harrington however broke his hip on landing by parachute. He was taken to a jail in Avellino and thence to the hospital in the same town. He and a crew mate were then sent by train to POW Camp PG78 in Fonte d'Amore, just outside Sulmona, Abruzzo. From here he was transferred to the Civil Hospital in Sulmona, on an unknown date, where on 9th October he was one of four to escape from a second floor window. He was then hidden in a series of hiding places in and around Sulmona by the Italian Resistance. However on or about 14th December he was possibly betrayed, recaptured and sent north to Germany as a POW for the remainder of the war.
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