War Diaries (February 25) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for February 25.
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George Beck: February 25, 1944
An English parachute troop was traced to a house near here in the town of Hornstadt. Armed police were sent out to capture him, they riddled him with a machine gun but he killed two policemen first and wounded one. The owner of the house hung himself and his wife was taken away under escort. The guards tell us it was an English prisoner who escaped but we get information from good sources. Today’s newspaper news "We have lost 36,000 troops up to date in Italy". The Americans keep getting pushed back by Nettund and the British are being sent forward. Everything going well in Russia.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)