Colonel Dick Kenney, retired WWII Army pilot, visited Bluewater Boathouse today. He enjoyed crab cakes with fish & chips and gave a big thumb’s up as he left the restaurant. As he savored the melt-in-your-mouth crab cakes, Colonel Kenney couldn’t help but comment on what a contrast this was compared to the food he had to endure in the war. While flying his P-38 Lightning out of North Africa he lived on canned C-rations. When he was shot down and spent the remainder of the war at Stalag Luft III (inspiration for the film, “The Great Escape”) he had to share infrequent Red Cross parcels with 200-10,000 soldiers. “Those Red Cross parcels had dried milk, Spam, canned corned beef, raisons or prunes. Maybe a small chocolate bar if you were lucky, and that was a luxury,” said Colonel Kenney.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 05:53:24 +0000
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