The lost airman
Subtitle: a true story of escape from Nazi-occupied France
By: Seth Meyerowitz ; with Peter F. Stevens
Contributors: Stevens, Peter F., 1955- author
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781592409297
Subjects: United States; Airmen; Underground movements; United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Squadron, 715th; World War, 1939-1945; Escapes; Biography; History
Other titles: True story of escape from Nazi-occupied France
Description: Documents the story of a World War II American Air Force turret-gunner who was one of two escapees when his team's plane was shot down near Cognac in 1943, tracing his harrowing six-month flight to safety across the Pyrenees under constant pursuit by the Gestapo.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279).
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A needle in a haystack; title: "Just a milk run"; title: Purple Heart corner; title: Hit the silk!; title: "What's in his hand?"; title: Marcel; title: The shed in the woods; title: War in the shadows; title: "Crazy-mad"; title: AKA Georges Lambert; title: A long shot at best; title: Playing the part; title: A narrow escape; title: Trouble in Beaumont-de-Lomagne; title: Death in the Pink City; title: The Gestapo at the door; title: Hiding in plain sight; title: Not a moment too soon; title: The Maquis; title: Meet Lieutenant Cleaver; title: Unlikely friends; title: "It's time"; title: Misery in the mountains; title: "One of the worst days in my life"; title: Parting ways; title: A perilous trek; title: Stranded; title: Good-bye, Georges Lambert; title: Death to France; title: "Welcome back to the war"; title: "It is therefore SECRET"; title: Rockaway Beach; title: Epilogue.