USA – Greg Lewis

March 7, 2026

How a book journey began

This is the man who first roused my interest in the story that would become my new book, ‘The Nazi Ghost Train’. His name was John Evans, and he was a wonderfully kind and brave man with a remarkable story of his own. A Halifax bomber pilot, he was shot down in May 1944 over…

The B-17 saved by a “miracle”

The American airmen who flew bombing missions from Britain are once again in my thoughts, as I’ve been researching the courage of many of them for my new book ‘The Nazi Ghost Train’. People like John ‘Bud’ Brown and Ted Kleinman, shot down in February 1944, and forced to embark on a seven-month ordeal which…

The B-17 saved by a “miracle”

In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You remember that we were hit with…