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The Lost Airman

Seth Meyerowitz,Peter Stevens

Author : Seth Meyerowitz,Peter Stevens
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698193963

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The Lost Airman by Seth Meyerowitz,Peter Stevens Pdf

The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom. Bronx-born top turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz was one of only two crewmen who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground, when their plane was shot down near Cognac, France, in 1943. After fleeing the wreck, Arthur knocked on the door of an isolated farmhouse, whose owners hastily took him in. Fortunately, his hosts had a tight connection to the French resistance group Morhange and its founder, Marcel Taillandier, who arranged for Arthur’s transfers among safe houses in southern France, shielding him from the Gestapo. Based on recently declassified material, exclusive personal interviews, and extensive research into the French Resistance, The Lost Airman tells the tense and riveting story of Arthur’s hair-raising journey to freedom—a true story of endurance, perseverance, and escape during World War II. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAP

Lost Airmen

Charles E. Stanley

Author : Charles E. Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684512829

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Lost Airmen by Charles E. Stanley Pdf

Late in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refugee with the Partisan underground. But the Americans were far from safety. Holed up in a village barely able to feed its citizens, encircled by Nazis, and left abandoned after a team of British secret agents failed to secure their escape, the airmen were left with little choice. It was either flee or be killed. In The Lost Airmen, Charles Stanely Jr. unveils the shocking true story of his father, Charles Stanely-and the eighteen brave soldiers he journeyed with for the first time. Drawing on over twenty years of research, dozens of interviews, and previously unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs written by the airmen, Stanley recounts the deadly journey across the blizzard-swept Dinaric Alps during the worst winter of the Twentieth Century-and the heroic men who fought impossible odds to keep their brothers in arms alive.

Soaring to Glory

Philip Handleman

Author : Philip Handleman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621579526

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Soaring to Glory by Philip Handleman Pdf

"This book is a masterpiece. It captures the essence of the Tuskegee Airmen's experience from the perspective of one who lived it. The action sequences make me feel I'm back in the cockpit of my P-51C 'Kitten'! If you want to know what it was like fighting German interceptors in European skies while winning equal opportunity at home, be sure to read this book!" —Colonel Charles E. McGee, USAF (ret.) former president, Tuskegee Airmen Inc. “All Americans owe Harry Stewart Jr. and his fellow airmen a huge debt for defending our country during World War II. In addition, they have inspired generations of African American youth to follow their dreams.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University He had to sit in a segregated rail car on the journey to Army basic training in Mississippi in 1943. But two years later, the twenty-year-old African American from New York was at the controls of a P-51, prowling for Luftwaffe aircraft at five thousand feet over the Austrian countryside. By the end of World War II, he had done something that nobody could take away from him: He had become an American hero. This is the remarkable true story of Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen pilots who experienced air combat during World War II. Award-winning aviation writer Philip Handleman recreates the harrowing action and heart-pounding drama of Stewart’s combat missions, including the legendary mission in which Stewart downed three enemy fighters. Soaring to Glory also reveals the cruel injustices Stewart and his fellow Tuskegee Airmen faced during their wartime service and upon return home after the war. Stewart’s heroism was not celebrated as it should have been in postwar America—but now, his boundless courage and determination will never be forgotten.

Airman

Eoin Colfer

Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423132080

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Airman by Eoin Colfer Pdf

Conor Broekhart was born to fly. It is the 1890s, and Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king.

Lost Eagles

Blaine Pardoe

Author : Blaine Pardoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472117529

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Lost Eagles by Blaine Pardoe Pdf

DIVThe first biography of the man who created the way we look for airmen downed in combat behind enemy lines/div

"Gone with the Wind," He Said

Michael I. Darter

Author : Michael I. Darter
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493162529

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"Gone with the Wind," He Said by Michael I. Darter Pdf

This book documents the search for my MIA brother Eugene F. Darter, who, just after meeting his baby brother on a pillow, flew off to Nazi-occupied Europe and vanished on his first bombing mission over Germany. My investigation began with a random Internet search on his fifty-seventh birthday on January 3, 2000, that quickly resulted in the miraculous discovery of one of his crewmates who found him badly shot and collapsed in a pool of blood in their shattered and burning B-17. Along the path of discovery were some amazing miracles, including discovering his surviving crew and their families, what happened to his two other MIA crewmates, pieces of his bomber on the beach a few days before a long planned memorial, and most importantly, eyewitnesses who saw crew members captured by the Nazis on a Dutch island. However, the greatest discovery was an eyewitness who saw an American airman come down through the fog and splash down into the sea, crying for help, but then carried away by the fierce wind farther out into the freezing sea beyond reach. "Gone with the wind" was his description of the shocking event unfolding in the stormy sea just in front of him. This book will be of particular interest to many families who have MIAs that number more than eighty-three thousand in America's wars. There is so much information available today on the Internet, in databases, individual researchers in the US and abroad, and in the National Archives for searching for your beloved MIA. There is also a great deal of assistance from the US government, who has many teams in the field every day searching, finding, identifying, and bringing home our hero MIAs.

Prisoner of the Swiss

Daniel Culler,Rob Morris

Author : Daniel Culler,Rob Morris
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612005553

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Prisoner of the Swiss by Daniel Culler,Rob Morris Pdf

A harrowing memoir revealing the horrors that occurred within a little-known prison camp in Switzerland, by a POW who survived it. During WWII, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland. Most neutral countries found reason to release US airmen from internment, but Switzerland took its obligations under the Hague Convention more seriously than most. The airmen were often incarcerated in local jails, then transferred to prison camps. The worst of these camps was Wauwilermoos, where at least 161 US airmen were sent for the honorable offense of escaping. To this hellhole came Dan Culler, the author of this incredible account of suffering and survival. Prisoners slept on lice-infested straw, were malnourished, and had virtually no hygiene facilities or access to medical care. But worse, the commandant of Wauwilermoos was a diehard Swiss Nazi. He allowed the mainly criminal occupants of the camp to torture and rape Dan Culler with impunity. After many months of such treatment, starving and ravaged by disease, he was finally aided by a British officer. Betrayal dominated his cruel fate—by the American authorities, by the Swiss, and, in a last twist, in a second planned escape that turned out to be a trap. But Dan Culler’s courage and determination kept him alive. Finally making it back home, he found he had been abandoned again. Political expediency meant there was no such place as Wauwilermoos. He had never been there, so he had never been a POW and didn‘t qualify for any POW benefits or medical or mental treatment for his many physical and emotional wounds. His struggle to make his peace with his past forms the final part of the story. An introduction and notes from military historian Rob Morris provide historical background and context, including recent efforts to recognize the suffering of those incarcerated in Switzerland and afford them full POW status.

Soul Survivor

Andrea Leininger,Bruce Leininger

Author : Andrea Leininger,Bruce Leininger
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781848502789

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Soul Survivor by Andrea Leininger,Bruce Leininger Pdf

James Leininger was just two years old when he began having disturbing nightmares that would not stop. He screamed out in the night: 'Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!' While nightmares are common among children, what happened next shocked those around him... James began to reveal details of planes and war tragedies that no two-year-old boy could know. His desperate parents were at a loss to help him until he said three things: 'Corsair', 'Natoma' and 'Jack Larsen'. From these tantalising clues, James's parents travelled thousands of miles and spent many long years piecing together these facts to try and find an answer that could end his torment. Finally, despite his mother's fears and his father's staunch Christian beliefs, they found only one possibility to the endless coincidences that surrounded every detail in James's life – that their son was reliving the past life of a World War II fighter pilot. Their touching story is one that will challenge sceptics and confirm the beliefs of those who already believe in life after death.

Tuskegee Airman Fighter Pilot

Patrick C. Coggins

Author : Patrick C. Coggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African American air pilots
ISBN : 1425147321

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Tuskegee Airman Fighter Pilot by Patrick C. Coggins Pdf

This book honors the Tuskegee Airmen, known as "Red Tails" who never lost escorted bombers during World War II. These decorated African American pilots overcame the prejudicial report of the 1925 War Department Study that concluded" Blacks cannot fly a complex airplane." Eleanor Roosevelt who was flown by a Black pilot dispelled these myths along with the success of the fighter pilots in the war. Two issues are clarified: 1) who is considered an Original Tuskegee Airman? 2) The difference between the two experiments, namely, the Tuskegee Experiment involving the study of Syphilis and the Tuskegee Pilot Experience. This personal account of a Tuskegee pilot provides insights into the struggles of the pilots in the 1940's. Six values anchored their success, namely, intellectual attainment, collective responsibility, creativity, faith, overcoming fear and determination. The unique timelines from 1861 to 2007 enables the reader to decipher the events leading up to the Tuskegee Pilot training and the achievements during and after the war culminating with each pilot receiving Honorary Doctorate degree from Tuskegee University and being awarded the coveted Congressional Gold Medal by President Bush. This book documents Lt. Col. Hiram Mann's progress from a bellman at a Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio to studying romance languages at Philander Smith College and becoming a pilot in the 99th Pursuit Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group. Insights are provided about these pilots fighting the enemy in Europe only to return to a segregated military and civilian life.

Death of an Airman

Christopher St. John Sprigg

Author : Christopher St. John Sprigg
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547183853

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Death of an Airman by Christopher St. John Sprigg Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Death of an Airman" by Christopher St. John Sprigg. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Shepherd

Frederick Forsyth

Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446474471

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The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth Pdf

The chilling thriller from the international bestselling phenomenon. 'A cunningle wrought tale' Financial Times 'A stirring and beautiful story' The Times _____________ Christmas Eve, 1957. For one Royal Air Force pilot, one last hurdle remains between himself and a cozy Christmas morning in England. A sixty-six-minute flight in his Vampire fighter plane from Germany to Lakenheath. A routine flight plan and a full tank of fuel. What could go wrong? But as the fog begins to close in, the compass goes haywire and the radio dies, leaving him in silence, lost and alone up in the inky black sky. All hope seems lost as he accepts his fate when, out of nowhere, a vintage fighter-bomber appears and is miraculously trying to make contact. For one lonely pilot this is a miracle, but really the mystery has just begun ... _____________ With over 1,000 5* reviews . . . ***** 'This was for me the best Christmas military short story' ***** 'What a great story!! I just loved it.' ***** 'A splendid story. Still have goosebumps after reading it.' ***** 'I, too, read this every Christmas season - and think of it often throughout the year.' ***** 'What a wonderful surprising ending, I didn't see that coming, very good story, I think imma remember it for a long time.'

Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?

Sherri L. Smith,Who HQ

Author : Sherri L. Smith,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399541957

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Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? by Sherri L. Smith,Who HQ Pdf

It's up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American military pilots who helped the United States win World War II. During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama. While this book details thrilling flight missions and the grueling training sessions the Tuskegee Airmen underwent, it also shines a light on the lives of these brave men who helped pave the way for the integration of the US armed forces.

The Airmen and the Headhunters

Judith M. Heimann

Author : Judith M. Heimann
Publisher : HMH
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547416069

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The Airmen and the Headhunters by Judith M. Heimann Pdf

A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes—only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home in a desperate game of hide-and-seek? A cinematic survival story featuring a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is also a gripping tale of wartime heroism unlike any other you have read.

Vanished

Wil S. Hylton

Author : Wil S. Hylton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101616253

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Vanished by Wil S. Hylton Pdf

From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.

Freedom Flyers

J. Todd Moye

Author : J. Todd Moye
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199896554

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Freedom Flyers by J. Todd Moye Pdf

Chronicles America's first African American military pilots, who fought againt two enemies, the Axis powers of World War II and Jim Crow racism in the United States.

The Lost Airman

The Lost Airman by Seth Meyerowitz,Peter Stevens Pdf

Lost Airmen by Charles E. Stanley Pdf

Soaring to Glory by Philip Handleman Pdf

Airman by Eoin Colfer Pdf

Lost Eagles by Blaine Pardoe Pdf

"Gone with the Wind," He Said by Michael I. Darter Pdf

Prisoner of the Swiss by Daniel Culler,Rob Morris Pdf

Soul Survivor by Andrea Leininger,Bruce Leininger Pdf

Tuskegee Airman Fighter Pilot by Patrick C. Coggins Pdf

Death of an Airman by Christopher St. John Sprigg Pdf

The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth Pdf

Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? by Sherri L. Smith,Who HQ Pdf

The Airmen and the Headhunters by Judith M. Heimann Pdf

Vanished by Wil S. Hylton Pdf

Freedom Flyers by J. Todd Moye Pdf

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