One Down, One Dead: The Personal Adventures of Two Fourth Fighter Group Combat Pilots As They Face the Luftwaffe over Germany - Couverture rigide

Speer, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1401099076 ISBN 13 : 9781401099077

Editeur : Xlibris Corporation, 2003

Synopsis

Two WWII fighter pilots, raised on different continents and trained in different countries, fight life or death combat with the Luftwaffe over Europe. They flew P-51 Mustangs in the 4th Fighter Group and contributed to the Group score of a record 1000-plus enemy planes destroyed, the highest total of any Allied Group. They became Aces within a day of each other; then one was killed in combat on D-Day, while the other, having been shot down, trekked across northern Germany in a futile effort to evade capture.

He is finally captured and as a POW, is forced to participate in a "Death March." After several unsuccessful attempts, he and a fellow POW finally escape. Leading a handful of French forced-laborers they capture 25 German soldiers, turn them over to Patton's advancing Third Army and eventually return to the U.S. by hospital ship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Xlibris Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1401099076
• ISBN 13: 9781401099077
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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