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...echelon, which roared into Fairford on the third day, did better still. One plane made the run in 5 hr. 30 min., another in 5 hr. 29 min. In the last of the wing's 45 planes came one of McCoy's squadron commanders, Lieut. Colonel Benny Klose, who shared the flying and navigating chores with his deputy, Lieut. Colonel Lawrence Grant, and the plane's regular pilot, Captain James B. Carter. Their average speed: 575 m.p.h. Their time...
...Reds put him into the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which like Buchenwald was taken over from the Nazis; to this day the Reds still use both. For five years Hans Klose, along with 60,000 other prisoners in Sachsenhausen, slept on a wooden pallet 2-ft. wide (if one man in the row turned in discomfort, all had to turn). He lost his teeth and got tuberculosis. He was never tried, got no hearing, was charged with nothing. Then, on Jan. 27, 1950, the Russians abruptly told him that he was a free...
Once out of prison, Klose took treatment for his TB (but was not cured), prepared to demand financial restitution from the British for false arrest. At 42, his hair was almost white...
...occupation court. It was quickly rejected. At the time of his arrest, said the judges, there had been a number of mistaken arrests, but the true identity had always come to light in the subsequent trials. If such a trial had not taken place in the case of Hans Klose, "the entire responsibility rests with the power that had demanded Klose's arrest. It is not for this court to decide claims against the Soviet occupation power...
What ever happened to the other Klose? Two months after they had jailed him, Hans later found out, the Russians picked up the Erich Klose they were looking for; he died of tuberculosis in a Red jail in 1947, or maybe it was 1948. No one really knew, and no one much cared...