Lightning Down : a World War II Story of Survival
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First edition.
Physical Desc
310 p
Status
Adult Nonfiction / HISTORY
940.54 / CLAVI, T / lightnin
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940.54 / CLAVI, T / lightnin
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Street Date
2111
Language
English
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On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just 22 years old, a farmboy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the war he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began. Joe Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured against impossible odds in the most horrific surroundings... until the day the orders are issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan might save them.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Clavin, T. Lightning Down: a World War II Story of Survival (First edition.).
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Clavin, Thomas. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival. .
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Clavin, Thomas. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival .
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Clavin, Thomas. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival First edition.,
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