Ankeny Susan Tate
Ankeny Susan Tate - The Girl And The Bombardier A True Story Of Resistance And Rescue In Nazi - Occupied France - Paperback
Ankeny Susan Tate - The Girl And The Bombardier A True Story Of Resistance And Rescue In Nazi - Occupied France - Paperback
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Description: A downed B - 17 bombardier's unfinished World War II memoir and a box of letters from the French girl who saved him sets a veteran's daughter on a journey sixty - five years later to craft their intersecting stories a true WWII tale of danger courage love and escape Susan Tate Ankeny was sorting through the belongings of her late father a World War II 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. A remarkable hero emerged Godelieve Van Laere just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century. 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 bailing from a flaming aircraft over enemy territory. It distinguishes the actions of a little - known French resistance network for Allied airmen known as Shelburne. And it shines a light on the courage and cunning of a young woman who put her life on the line to save another s.
Title: The Girl And The Bombardier A True Story Of Resistance And Rescue In Nazi - Occupied France
Author(s): Ankeny Susan Tate
Publisher: Diversion Books
Barcode: 9781635767179
Pages: 256 Pages, Black-And-White Photos In 8-Page Insert
Publication Date: 9/8/2020
Category: Second World War
Description: A downed B - 17 bombardier's unfinished World War II memoir and a box of letters from the French girl who saved him sets a veteran's daughter on a journey sixty - five years later to craft their intersecting stories a true WWII tale of danger courage love and escape Susan Tate Ankeny was sorting through the belongings of her late father a World War II 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. A remarkable hero emerged Godelieve Van Laere just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century. 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 bailing from a flaming aircraft over enemy territory. It distinguishes the actions of a little - known French resistance network for Allied airmen known as Shelburne. And it shines a light on the courage and cunning of a young woman who put her life on the line to save another s.
Title: The Girl And The Bombardier A True Story Of Resistance And Rescue In Nazi - Occupied France
Author(s): Ankeny Susan Tate
Publisher: Diversion Books
Barcode: 9781635767179
Pages: 256 Pages, Black-And-White Photos In 8-Page Insert
Publication Date: 9/8/2020
Category: Second World War
