On July 22, 2003, U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch, a prisoner-
of-war who was rescued from an Iraqi hospital, received a hero’s welcome when she returns to her hometown of Palestine, West
Virginia.

The story of the 19-year-old supply clerk, who was captured by 
Iraqi forces in March 2003, gripped America; however, it was
later revealed that some details of Lynch’s dramatic capture
and rescue might have been exaggerated.

Jessica Lynch in the hospital.

Hogan’s Heroes is a television sitcom set in a Nazi German
prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran for
168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to
April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, the longest broadcast
run for an American television series inspired by that war.

Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating
an international crew of Allied prisoners running a special
operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played
Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the gullible commandant of the camp,
and John Banner played the blundering but lovable sergeant-
of-the-guard, Hans Schultz.

From  left: Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer

Leon Askin takes a break.

Robert Clary (left) and Bob Crane.