Retired Chief Master Sgt. William Tippins did his best to beat down the Nazi regime. Throughout his stint in the Army he was captured multiple times and somehow managed to escape on three different occasions as a P.O.W from Nazi camps.
While he loved his time in the Army, a memory of a young blonde German woman will always be the image that will resonate the strongest in his soul. In his darkest hour, in the middle of a dark P.O.W. camp, he found himself starving to death, but a young nurse's aid kept him alive by sneaking him food every single day.
With the energy that that food gave him, he somehow managed to escape and make it back to American lines. The Army sent him home, and his time in the war was over. But he kept thinking about that young woman who had saved his life.
The war had ended, but Tippins wanted to help rebuild occupied Germany. He found a loophole that allowed him to work in the country with the mission of finding that young woman.
Through sheer fate, Tippins ran into that young woman and both of them immediately fell in love with each other. They were married seven months later and lived a long happy life together until she passed away in 2003.
While Tippins was certainly heartbroken at the loss of his soul-mate, he's happy that he found her so many years ago. He misses her dearly but rejoices in the fact that they'll reunite someday in the future. "Life is a gamble, and I just made a good bet!" he said through laughter.
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Retired Chief Master Sgt. William Tippins has the best story you'll hear today. In the Army during World War II, "Tip" was a Prisoner of War. During his 18 months in captivity, he escaped three times from the Germans and once from Russian liberators before returning to American care. He tried to join the Army again to go back to Germany after the war was over in search of a nurse’s aide who kept him alive by sneaking him food. But Tippins wasn’t allowed to go while in the Army due to an agreement with the Germans, which did not allow prisoners of war to return to Germany. Finding a loophole, he joined the newest branch of the military, the Air Force. Tippins then was stationed in Germany and eventually found the nurse who kept him alive, they were married seven months later.
Posted by DAV on Wednesday, December 2, 2015
