"Beyond the Call" - fact or fiction?

[Knouterer]

On page 120-125, Trimble "saves" a bunch of POWs and others vaguely described as "civilian ex-prisoners", including 25 women and children by bringing them out of the woods and putting them on a train in Krakow.

P. 125: "The soul he had most wanted to bring to freedom - the ticket that he most wanted to buy - was not among them.
Baby Kasia had not made it through that cold night on the outskirts of the city. Robert's heart had come close to breaking as they laid her to rest, still wrapped in his scarf, on a secluded patch of ground near the roadside and raised a little cairn of stones over her.
She had found a different kind of freedom from the pain of the world."

IMHO any writer, and especially one pretending to write nonfiction, should be ashamed of this kind of gooey sentimentality, but more to the point: why did Trimble bury "baby Kasia" by the roadside like a dead dog? Were there no priests or churches left anywhere in Krakow? Why was it beyond Trimble's capabilities to arrange a decent Christian burial? James Bond would have managed it.

[Knouterer]

Regarding Trimble's Croix de Guerre (assuming for the moment that he did actually receive one, see above), I inquired at the French "Service Historique de la Défense" and they can't find any trace of any such medal being awarded to Robert M. Trimble.
However, there still might be something in the archives of the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air). If there is, it (almost) certainly concerns Trimble's service as a pilot, and not his alleged humanitarian rescue work with regard to the mysterious 400 young Frenchwomen, of whom I have not been able to find any trace either. If they ever existed - which I doubt - they must have been extremely discreet about their experiences.