The Playboy Crew 1943-1944

<br><br><b>The Playboy took a terrible beating that day... </b><br><br>The Luftwaffe fighter planes and heavy cannon fire had really done a number on the hardy B-24 Liberator leaving it about sixty percent plane and forty percent holes. Fortunately nine of the ten Playboy crew members were able to bail out. But then the real trouble started. <br><br>Years later one of these brave air crew members shares his story and relives the year he spent narrowly evading the Germans in occupied Holland-hiding in secret compartments and haymows in the country; aiding the Dutch Underground members in disrupting the enemy forces all while trying to get to Allied lines with the help of the Dutch Resistance Force. <br><br> Our World War II experiences uprooted us from our homes and reshaped us from whatever we had formerly been. Ten specialists were formed into a fighting team-dubbed The Playboy Crew-whose lives to a great extent depended on one another. That we functioned as well as we did is a credit not only to our training but to the type of people we were and to those who led us.