Did this actually happen...?

[LAstry2]

Supposedly in Normandy several men were trapped in a bunker cave in///and yet somehow survived serveral years after WW II ended!!!
Supposely a movie was made...
Did this actually happen or not?

[Art]

See the known urband legend about a sentinel who spent 9 years in an underground warehouse in the fortress of Brest-Litovsk
http://militera.lib.ru/prose/russian/smirnov2/01.html
At some phase of DNA mutation Brest-Litovsk could become Brest in France. It occurs to me that it was a kind of universal and all-pervading myth.

[Michael Kenny]

One German was found 'living' in one of the bunkers near the beach about a week after D-Day.

[LAstry2]

Thanks for answears,,,,,

[Carl Schwamberger]

One German was found 'living' in one of the bunkers near the beach about a week after D-Day.

Not much different from the occasional individual or small group of soldiers who hide out in the woods or in town after their unit is overrun or surrounded. It happens. In large battles dozens or even hundreds or stragglers can avoid capture for days or weeks before capture or exfiltration. A Red Army officer described the city of Odessa as infested with Rumanian soldiers after the Red Army captured it. Some were deserters, others lost in the retreat, and some simply to stupid to leave their girlfriend. During the Sicilian campaign in 1943 a German corporals guard was left at a supply dump in western Sicilly. A transport company was to pick up them & the material. After a few days they decided the trucks were not coming and their lives were not worth defending the supplies from increasingly aggressive Italian looters. They managed to hike across central Sicilly through the area overrun by the US 7th Army & rejoin the retreat to Messina.

Even in training exercises I witnessed men who became separated & wandered the countryside alone for hours or days.

[Kingfish]

Pretty sure the Japanese hold the holdout record

[Carl Schwamberger]

Pretty sure the Japanese hold the holdout record


Indeed. One USN radio tech managed to remain free on Guam until the US force returned. A bit over 2.5 years. Some other ran loose as guerrillas on the Philippines for a similar time. Ditto for a few Australians in the S Pacific.


I've met a couple Viet Nam veterans who think they are still there. Not quite the same thing, but its their reality.

[OpanaPointer]

"You can leave the bush but can the bush leave you?"

Well, that's what support groups are for. G'luck dude.

[Rick28]

Maybe you are referring to Babie Doły, Pomeranian Voivodeship?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babie_Do% ... oivodeship

[wm]

Unfortunately, it seems that Babie Doły is almost certainly an urban legend.

And see this: