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German POW details daring St Lawrence escape to U S
Reich, a 23 year old machinists mate of a sunken U boat, recounted wriggling through a porthole of a British prison ship in the St Lawrence in July 1945 and fleeing to Maine then Boston. He praised American fairness as immigration authorities handled his case and said he crossed 25 miles inside the United States before being detected.
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