Valor, Guts, and Luck : A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II /

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The story of B - 17 tailgunner Lowell ""Slats"" Slayton who beat the odds during WW II - including being shot down, captured and held as a POW, and forced to march 300 miles from Poland to western Germany on the Black March during one of the coldest winters on record.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smallwood, William L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slayton, Lowell, > 1923-2013
Slayton, Lowell, > 1923-
Slayton, Lowell, > 1923-2013.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Bombardment Group, 381st.
United States. > Army Air Forces.
Stalag Luft IV.
Stalag Luft IV > Biography.
United States. > Army Air Forces > Aerial gunners > Biography.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Bombardment Group, 381st > Biography.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
Military campaigns.
Death marches.
B-17 bomber.
Armed Forces > Aerial gunners.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Marches de la mort > Allemagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Front occidental.
B-17 (Bombardier) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Death marches > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
B-17 bomber > History > 20th century.
Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
Germany.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:The story of B - 17 tailgunner Lowell ""Slats"" Slayton who beat the odds during WW II - including being shot down, captured and held as a POW, and forced to march 300 miles from Poland to western Germany on the Black March during one of the coldest winters on record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9781612346991

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