Tonight, the History Channel is going to broadcast a program titled "Shot From the Sky". The promo on their website reads:

On June 14, 1944, pilot Roy Allen and the 10-man crew of his B-17 embarked on a mission over Nazi-occupied France that was supposed to be a milk run. Instead, it proved more dangerous than anything they ever imagined. Blasted by flak, Roy was forced to parachute into France. Trapped behind enemy lines, a 21-year-old schoolteacher-- French Resistance patriot Colette Florin--saved his life. On his way back to England, a traitor within the Resistance betrayed Roy. Captured by the Gestapo, tortured, imprisoned and labeled a terrorist by the Nazis, he became one of 168 Allied airmen who shipped across Europe on a nightmare rail journey to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. In the heart of the Nazi empire, the only thing that kept them alive was each other. It's a human story of courage and loss, determination and sacrifice by ordinary people whose lives were profoundly altered by war.

This story caught my eye because I helped another of those 168 Allied airmen (Jim Fore) write his autobiography of his experiences, both in Buchenwald and afterwards. His plane was shot down on July 8th, about a month after Allen's. Of the 9 men on board, one was killed while descending in his parachute (machine gunned) and another holed up and waited until he was liberated by advancing Allied forces, some two months later. The seven remaining crewmen linked up with the French Underground, where they were also betrayed and sent to Buchenwald. More on Jim's story can be found here.