This is a great story about Peter Roper, a Royal Air Force pilot, who regularly goes to France for the D-Day anniversary to pay tribute to the French villagers who saved his life in the days after the Allied invasion on June 6, 1944.
This year the trip's highlight will be the presentation of France's highest award for military or civilian achievement, the Legion of Honour. All Typhoon pilots who took part in the Battle of Normandy are entitled to the award for the key role they played in the campaign. Roper will receive his at the chateau where he was taken after being shot down while hunting German tanks near the Allied beachhead on June 7, 1944.
Roper managed to get out of his burning Typhoon despite a foot that was almost severed by an anti-aircraft shell.
He parachuted safely into a farmer's field and was taken in by villagers in Monts-en-Bessin, who snuck him through German lines in a horse-drawn cart to a doctor in a town nearby.
Click here to find out what happened next and view pictures on the CBC website.
The photo above belongs to Peter Roper.