Someone lowered the Nazi Swastika and ran the Stars and Stripes up the camp flagpole. Then up went the other flags the men had hidden in anticipation of this day: the Union Jack, the Red Star of Russia, the French Tricolors, and the flags of nearly every other Allied nation. The prisoners went wild. “We cheered even louder,” said airman Roger Burwell, “when a truckload of bread showed up.” It was “real WHITE bread, which tastes like cake to us.”
