Eat Sleep Write With Adam Scull

Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in this touching conversation with author/military historian Rob Morris about becoming a better person and living a better life after experiencing the horrors of WWII. Dan Culler was a young Top Turret Gunner/Flight Engineer on a B-24 bomber crew in the 44th Bomb Group, (famous for the Ploesti oil fields raid). The crew was shot up during a mission and forced to land in neutral Switzerland, where they were sent to internment camps high in the Swiss Alps. Life was Spartan but not bad, unless one tried to escape, as Dan did. After his capture, Dan was sent to the Swiss Federal Prison at Wauilermoos, a camp administered by a sadistic Swiss Nazi named Andre Beguin. This began several months of torture, beatings, and confinement during which the U.S. government formerly denied the camp's very existence. Finally, Dan's body wracked by tuberculosis covered with sores, and broken internally by torture, Dan was saved by a British sergeant major and sent to a tuberculosis hospi