Lost Airmen : : the Epic Rescue of Wwii U.s. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
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The making of a pilot -- Shot down twice -- Churchill's choice -- Following Tito's footsteps -- Bombs bursting in air -- Stranded in Sanski Most -- Herky's boys get downed -- The weakest link breaks -- Point of no return -- Flying on borrowed time -- The ICARUS mission arrives -- A conspiracy of circumstances -- The flying shithouse and the ghost ship -- An unmerry Christmas -- The tourist takes charge -- At the mercy of friends -- Pulling rank -- On the home front -- Bitter logic -- Far from over -- A terrible blindness -- Coming home.
Winter 1944, Yugoslavia. American airmen parachuted from crippled bombers. Some landed in safety. Others were slaughtered by German fire. Extreme weather closed the skies; the Germans blocked the path to the sea. British agents eventually extracted sixty-six airmen. Eighteen remained-- and were sent over the mountains at the prodding of guns by the Partisan forces who were desperate to rid themselves of the Americans. Stanley, the son of one of the eighteen Lost Airmen who walked across the Yugoslav wilderness to safety in January 1945, tells their story. -- adapted from jacket.
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PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: 359 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781684512621
9781684514052
SUBJECTS
Stanley, Charles E.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations -- Yugoslavia.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography.