Tate Ankeny S The Girl and the Bombardier Story in Nazi-Occupied France 2020
Tate Ankeny S The Girl and the Bombardier Story in Nazi-Occupied France 2020 | 217.65 MB
Title: The Girl and the Bombardier
Author: Susan Tate Ankeny
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Susan Tate Ankeny was sorting through the belongings of her late father—a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944—when she found two boxes. One contained her dad's Air Force uniform, and the other an unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade from that moment tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father's story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago.
The result is an amazing, multifaceted World War II tale—perhaps one of the last of its kind to be enriched by an author's interviews with participants. It traces the transformation of a small-town American boy into a bombardier, the thrill and chaos of an air war, and the horror of...
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Susan Tate Ankeny was sorting through the belongings of her late father—a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944—when she found two boxes. One contained her dad's Air Force uniform, and the other an unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade from that moment tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father's story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago.
The result is an amazing, multifaceted World War II tale—perhaps one of the last of its kind to be enriched by an author's interviews with participants. It traces the transformation of a small-town American boy into a bombardier, the thrill and chaos of an air war, and the horror of...
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https://rapidgator.net/file/d4b53cfc76a4a9135adff7f32146f74c/Tate_Ankeny_S._The_Girl_and_the_Bombardier...Story..in_Nazi-Occupied_France_2020.rar
https://filestore.me/cyuwpd20veo7/Tate_Ankeny_S._The_Girl_and_the_Bombardier...Story..in_Nazi-Occupied_France_2020.rar