:01:11
I don't know about you,
:01:13
but it makes me sore seeing those
war pictures about flying leathernecks,
:01:17
and submarine patrols, and frogmen,
and guerrillas in the Philippines.
:01:22
What gets me is that there
never was a movie about P.O.W. S...
:01:25
...about prisoners of war.
:01:28
My name is Clarence Harvey Cook -
they call me Cookie.
:01:32
I was shot down over Magdeburg,
Germany, back in '43.
:01:35
That's why I stammer sometimes,
especially when I get excited.
:01:39
I spent two and a half years in Stalag 17.
:01:43
"Stalag" is German for prison camp.
:01:45
Number 17
was somewhere on the Danube.
:01:48
There were about
40,000 P.O.W. S there -
:01:50
if you count the Russians,
the Poles and the Czechs.
:01:54
In our compound,
there were about 630 of us.
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All American airmen - radio operators,
gunners and engineers. All sergeants.
:02:03
Now, put 630 sergeants together and,
oh mother, you've got yourself a situation!
:02:09
There was more fireworks shooting
off around that joint...
:02:12
Take the story about the spy
we had in our barracks.
:02:16
It was about a week before
Christmas in '44.
:02:19
Two of our guys,
Manfredi and Jonson, to be exact,
:02:22
were just getting set
to blow the place.