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A portrait of Mr. John Feeley included in the book "Portraits of Valour" by Mr. Murray Saint.
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John Feeley
Canadian Veteran John Feeley holding a student thank-you card, after speaking at a local school.
John Feeley
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John Feeley
Bill McMullen's logbook, showing his last fatal operation. Courtesy of John Feeley, in memory of Bill McMullen, January 13, 1945.
John Feeley
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John Feeley
Escape map of Airman John Feeley. Feeley landed in La Loupe, about one thousand yards from General Patton's company, August 1944.
John Feeley
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John Feeley
Airman John Feeley, age 20, 1942.
John Feeley
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John Feeley, Pilot Officer, Royal Canadian Air Force, World War II.
On August the 16th of 1944 we were shot down and ordered by our skipper to bail out, which we proceeded to do. Now, we were flying about 7500 feet and we had probably not nearly as much training on what we should have done under these circumstances. I closed my two elbows as close to my body as I could and I put my hand on the ring to make sure that I had it even before I rolled out, and the parachute landed over top of a tree. There was a dog in the vicinity that was barking so I tried to pull this thing down out of the tree and wasn't having much luck. This dog was barking so I thought I better get away from this site as quickly as I could. And after a short period of time it seemed as though walking through these fields was rather pointless so I took off all this flying gear and crawled under a bush and went to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, here I was fairly close to a road, a main road, and I walked down it for a short distance. We had these little kits - I don't know whether I opened mine up at 11:30 at night or didn't do it 'til the following morning - but in these escape kits we had... there was 2,000 Francs, there was a little compass, I think there was some... a little bit of chocolate and the map, which I still have. When I'm walking on this roadway and I hear this rumbling of trucks and as these trucks approached and saw these big army trucks with a big star on the side. Since they had come from my right, I realized that they were coming from friendly territory so I walked down the highway maybe a thousand feet or so - couple of thousand feet, maybe - and there was a fork in the road and there was a sentry posted right up at the point. They had just set this camp up about midnight the night before. But, in the meantime, there were a bunch of kids around and gawking at me. This was on General George Patton front lines, by the way. And there were some Americans driving back... further back, and I put my thumb out and they gave me a ride and took me back to LeMans and unloaded me there. Now there weren't any civilians to be seen. I don't know where all the civilians were but there... I didn't see any civilians at all. A couple of days later some of the other members of my crew arrived. They had landed just outside Chartres, were taken to the mayor's house and treated quite royally.