gunner. In the 1920s Harsh had committed murder  and was sent to jail for life. A medical student, Harsh performed an  appendectomy on a dying prisoner and saved his life. The governor of  Georgia granted him a pardon and he was set free. After the war, he  had personal problems as he was plagued by guilt over the crime he  committed as a youth; on top of adjusting to life after fifteen  years in captivity (12 years on the Georgia chain gang, followed by  three years as POW). On Christmas Eve 1974, he did shoot himself but  survived. A stroke soon after left him partially paralyzed. When  that happened, Wally Floody and his wife brought him up to their  Toronto home and looked after him. He eventually went to live 