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Kriegie : An American POW in Germany

Oscar G. Richard - a native of Sunshine, Louisiana -was not the usual World War II serviceman. After enlisting in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 and training diligently for many months, the B-17 bombardier spent only one week in combat. On his third and last mission - on January 14, 1944 - his plane...

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Autor principal: Richard, Oscar G. III
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Prologue; 1 Stateside; 2 Shipping Out; 3 Grafton Underwood; 4 Operation Crossbow; 5 Interrogation at Dulag Luft; 6 Barth on the Baltic; 7 The Spider Kelly Gang; 8 Living Under Capture; 9 Mail Call; 10 Colonel Spicer Sounds Off; 11 We Kept Informed; 12 Luminaries at Stalag Luft I; 13 The Final Winter; 14 The Russians Arrive; 15 Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland; 16 Heading Home; Epilogue; Afterword; Appendix; Sources and Acknowledgments. 
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