"By a coincidence, I met Gail at the library here in Tarm back in 2012. Had I not met her then, I would not be here today. Gail is resident in Canada and I live in
Randers, a town in Eastjutland. I am so pleased that we met, and happy to be here today.

Gail has asked me to talk about my experiences on the night of March 12, 1945. I was not a member of civilian protection, but when there was air alarm, I met
up at the command center in the basement of “The old peoples home”.

Thus, also on March 12. As we experienced that a British Lancaster bomber was shot down near Lyne, it was decided that Hans Hansen who knew his way
around the area, were to drive there in a small truck and Niels Poulsen and I should come along.

We were not the very first to reach the wreck. The first arrivals told us that all survivors were gone. We found no injured crewmembers in the wreck, but we found
the two dead.

To make sure that the Germans did not find the dead, we decided that we should take them to Tarm in the truck to bring them to the hospital, where they could
be placed in the morgue until a funeral could take place. A fourth person was now to join us on the trip to Tarm, but as there was only room for three in the cab
of the truck, I had to sit on the platform with the dead on the trip home. The trip went fine without being stopped by the German authorities. We brought the two
bodies to the hospital and went back to the command center.

As we sat and discussed the events of the evening, two German officers came by. They wanted to know if we knew the crash site of a British bomber, which was
shot down south of Tarm. Since we knew that there was neither injured nor dead in the wreck dared we say, "Yes, we know the crash site". We showed them
Lyne on a map, but it was not enough. They demanded a man to help show the way.

We agreed that Hans Hansen and I went along. There was not much conversation on the trip, they asked, however, if we had been out there. I lied and said “No”
to make sure that they should not ask more questions, but I said that Hans Hansen knew the area and the crash site mentioned.

Close by the village Lyne we drove into the ditch. We came to a cross – a T-cross where you had to turn to the left or to the right. Instead of to turn the driver drove
straight out and we ended in the ditch. Hans was a jolly fellow and he said in a funny way “Well – here you should have turned”. It was not a deep ditch and we
were five men, the driver included, so it was easy to get the car on the road again and we could go on.

After we had stayed at the wreck for about half an hour, we drove back to Tarm. As I listened to the talk of the German officers, I understood they were surprised
to there were nether injured nor dead in the wreck. They also mentioned parachutes. Home again, Hans Hansen and I set off at the command center.

I do not know how the Germans discovered that there were to bodies at the hospital and how Chr. Andersen, the owner of a horsecarriage, was ordered to run the
two dead – Porter and Morris – into the forest.

If Chr. Andersen ever until the 4th or 5th may 1945 told anyone about the place where Porter and Morris had been hidden I do not know. Of cause I had heard that
they were hidden in the forest but as I remember I heard nothing about the exactly place until the 5th May."