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felt little enthusiasm. I had visions of myself floating
in the icy waters of the North Sea energetically
blowing the whistle, which most certainly could not
be heard beyond a few hundred yards, and perhaps
being saved by some passing ship.
The flight went well, however, and we arrived
safely at the St. Leuchars airport. We continued
from Scotland to London where, after a few days of
conferences with various aid organizations and the
UNRRA delegates in England, we received an
invitation to Allied Headquarters in France.
We took off on a clear November morning from
an airfield near London in an American plane. Our
pilot was a brigadier general on the staff of General
Spaatz, chief of the Allied Strategic Air Forces in
Europe. A strange feeling took possession of us when
we crossed the English Channel and flew in over
some of the most devastated parts of France. This
was the region where the invasion had started and
where the tide of war had turned. We had asked
ourselves how that part of the country would look.
All we could see from the plane was destruction and
devastation.
Soon we approached the war itself. When we
landed on a temporary airstrip near Versailles, our
impressions of the devastating march of war grew
stronger. Everywhere we saw burned houses and
wrecked aircraft. General Spaatz’ Headquarters,
which we reached later, gave the impression of being
more mobile than permanent. One had the feeling
they were prepared to move at any moment if
developments necessitated. The General himself lived
in a trailer, fully prepared to move on short notice.
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