Betrayed: Secrecy, Lies, and Consequences

by Frederic Martini

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  ARCHIVAL RESOURCES

  US National Archives, College Park, MD: Record Groups 18, 59, 60-65, 125, 153, 165, 210, 226, 229, 238, 242, 263, 319, 330, 331, 338, 342, 389, 407,466, 498, 549

  Kew Archives (UK): Record Groups FO 1031, WO 33, 208, 219, 311, AIR 20, 40, 219, DEFE 40, HS 6

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Chantilly, VA: Captured German documents: Microfilm Reels FE 28, 39, 40, 41, 54, 65, 66, 70, 71

  ORAL HISTORIES:

  Chasten Bowen, http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn55166

  Richard Bedford, http
://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn57423

  Ed Carter-Edwards, http://www.thememoryproject.com/stories/490:edward-carter-edwards/

  Arthur Kinnis, http://contentdm.library.uvic.ca/cdm/ref/collection/collection13/id/2071

  Alan Smith, http://www.thememoryproject.com/stories/557:allan-al-smith/

  Loren Jackson, extended taped personal interviews

  DOCUMENTARIES:

  The Lucky Ones (1994), National Film Board of Canada, 50 mins.

  Shot from the Sky (2004) History Channel, 96 mins.

  The Lost von Braun (2008) Aron Ranen, 36 mins.

  Lost Airmen of Buchenwald (2012) Michael Dorsey, 93 mins.

  WEBSITE REFERENCES:

  USAAF:

  http://www.385bg.com/

  http://www.398th.org/Research/8th_AF_Formations_Description.html

  http://www.303rdbg.com/crew-duties.html

  http://www.303rdbg.com/crewmen-missions.html

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80SNbQmACZ0

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-zRFEt9lI

  http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/mshwpmn1.htm#contents

  http://www.398th.org/Research/8th_AF_Formations_Description.html

  FRENCH AND FFI:

  http://www.conscript-heroes.com/escapelines/index.htm

  http://www.aide-aviateurs-allies-ww2.fr/

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre

  http://www.cometeline.org/

  http://theescapeline.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/traitors-part-2.html?m=1

  https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5694055

  BUCHENWALD:

  http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/GettingThere.html

  http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/282244/Sacrafice-of-Britain-s-bomber-boys

  https://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=Buchenwald

  https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198

  http://www.possumline.net/EscapersAndEvaders/robb/ownstory.htm

  SL III AND S VIIA:

  http://www.b24.net/pow/stalag3.htm

  http://therealgreatescape.com/stalag-luft-iii/

  http://www.usafa.edu/df/dflib/SL3/SL3.cfm?catname=Dean%20of%20Faculty

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_VII-A

  http://www.muzeum.zagan.pl/index.php?id=0&lng=eng

  http://www.b24.net/pow/stalag7.htm

  https://www.moosburg.org/info/stalag/indeng.html

  http://b24boojum.com/prison.html

  Wernher von Braun and V-2 rockets:

  http://www.v2rocket.com/

  http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Wernher_von_Braun

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

  http://dora.uah.edu/engineers.html

  https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007319

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelbau-Dora

  https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005322

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Trial

  CAMP LUCKY STRIKE:

  http://www.skylighters.org/special/cigcamps/cmplstrk.html

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G_pReGM3uI

  PROJECT OVERCAST/PAPERCLIP:

  /www.scribd.com/doc/46347374/Wernher-von-Braun-and-the-German-Rocket-Team-in-America

  http://www.greatdreams.com/blog-2012/dee-blog107.html

  http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=2932

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4443934.stm

  https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/595/deep-end-of-the-pool

  PHOTO CREDITS:

  Figures 1, 2, 3: 385th Bomb Group Association; Figures 4, 8, 14, 24, 28, 29, 30: Frederic H. Martini; Figure 5: 381st BG Memorial Association, 381st.org; Figure 6: National Air and Space Museum, Fort Eustis microfilm collection; Figure 7: Photograph by Walter Frentz. Courtesy of Hanns-Peter Frentz; Figure 9: Comite Du Memorial Du Dernier Convoi De Deportation En Seine-Et-Marne; Figure 10: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert A. Schmuhl; Figure 11: From a map provided by the Buchenwald Museum; Figure 12: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Melvin Cohen; Figure 13: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mary Dickinson; Figure 15: National Air and Space Museum, Fort Eustis microfilm collection; Figure 16: Stalag Luft III Association; Figures 17, 21: US Air Force Academy, from the scrapbook of General A. P. Clark; Figure 18: Mooseburg Online; Figure 20: US Signal Corps/v2rocket.com; Figures 22, 23: v2rocket.com; Figures 25, 27: NASA; Figure 26: NACA