Eric Lomax,a British WW2 veteran,whose memoires are currently being made into a movie,has died on monday,aged 93.
During the war Lomax worked as a POW on the Birma Railroad.In his memoires(1995) he tells about his live as 'The Railway Man',not only about his experiences as a POW but also his postwar search for the Japanese soldier who questioned and tortured him.In the end he forgave the Japanese soldier for his behaviour.
The book became a bestseller and won 2 literary prices.In 1995 it became a tv-movie,'Prisoners in time',starring John Hurt as Lomax.
In 2013  the movie 'The Railway Man' will come out,from director Jonathan Teplitzky.
Colin Firth and Jeremy Irving play the older and young Lomax.
Nicole Kidman stars as his wife Patti.

Greetz,brummbar

Eric Lomax

The Macchi MC.202 “Folgore” captured by the US Armed Forces and switched to USA, showed at Freeman Airfield, Indiana, September 1945, together with two other famous “war birds”: the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero and the British Vickers Supermarine Spitfire. After its arrival in USA the Italian fighter was showed a Wright Field on 23 March 1944 and afterwards transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for repairs. With the USA registration FE-300 and afterwards FE-498 and false and not correct Italian emblems and markings, the “Folgore” was exhibit at Freeman Field and on August 1946, as T2-498, was stowed at Park Ridge. On 1975 the Italian plane was completely restored by the Washington U.S. National Air and Space Museum with the livery of the 4th Stormo’s 90th Squadriglia (code 90-4) of the Italian Regia Aeronautica. This is the livery with the plane is actually exhibited. Victor Sierra