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1945 год
Алексей Грушко:
--- Цитата: Влад Шайхнуров от Сентября 04, 2015, 00:11:59 ---Тут прочитал в "Альфетте", что первая послевоенная гонка в Булонском лесу была посвящена памяти погибших во время войны Роберу Бенуа и гонщику с псевдонимом Уильямс. Но позже выяснилось, что тот самый Уильямс вовсе даже и не погиб, а жив. И на самом деле он - английский шпион. Кто знает какие-нибудь подробности? Вычеркнуть из сознания будущих поколений факт было легко - нигде на афишах имена не упоминались. Уильямс, очевидно, был "сиротой", а вот жена и дочь Бенуа присутствовали на гонке и пели "Марсельезу" с Гордини.
Странно, но больше нигде не сталкивался с упоминанием данного факта.
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--- Цитировать ---Yet there are many who believe that Grover survived. One rumour had a mysterious man signing autographs at race meetings as “Williams”, another insisted he lived on as a grocer in Surrey. Recently released government documents report that, in 1947, a man named Grover-Williams was relocated to the USA by MI6 officers in Berlin, which would fit with the testimony of SS officer Kurt Eccarius, who insisted that Grover-Williams was taken to Berlin in January 1945 and then to Rawicz prison camp in Poland just before it was overrun by the Red Army.
Some historians have speculated that he was used by MI6 from 1945 to 1947, pointing to a photograph of Sachenhausen apparently annotated in his handwriting. MI6 says it knows what happened to him but refuses to provide any more detail. Beatrice van Lith, Robert Benoist’s granddaughter, is convinced that Grover-Williams survived. Her research revealed that, in 1948, a man named Georges Tambal – who shared Willy’s birthday, had a gift for mechanics and who bore marks of severe beatings on his head – moved in with Willy’s wife Yvonne at her Evreux home, where locals said they lived like man and wife. Tambal said he’d come from America via Uganda, two places where Willy had family ties (he picked up two giraffes on the way, which he sold to a local zoo). Finally, when the mayor of Evreux asked Tambal to sign the register at the town hall, as required by law, he got a visit from the Gendarmerie ordering him to waive the requirement.
If Tambal was Willy, then his death would have been unusually poignant. Moving to Agen on Yvonne’s death in 1973, he died ten years later when he was knocked off his bike – by a German tourist driving a Mercedes.
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http://www.scotsman.com/sport/more-sport/motorsport/formula-one-uncovering-the-mystery-of-william-grover-williams-1-2321005
Здесь несколько подробнее - http://8w.forix.com/rb-w-jpw.html
Влад Шайхнуров:
Погорячился наш, понимаешь, Эд МакДоног. Не все так однозначно.
Спасибо за ссылки. Я как-то пропустил.
Владимир Коваленко:
Filton Sprint 1945 and Whitchurch Races 1959
Владимир Коваленко:
Кокфостерс.
Влад Шайхнуров:
Шикарно!
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