Relates the story of bomber pilot Henry Supchak, who was captured by German soldiers after his aircraft crashed in Austria but received help from a young Austrian boy who secretly brought him food and water, and his reunion eighty years later with his Austrian savior.
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Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Relates the story of bomber pilot Henry Supchak, who was captured by German soldiers after his aircraft crashed in Austria but received help from a young Austrian boy who secretly brought him food and water, and his reunion eighty years later with his Austrian savior.
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
In July 1944, bomber pilot Henry Supchak lost control of his aircraft and crashed at the base of an Austrian mountain. Held for days at a small village, Supchak remembered a small boy who would sneak into their holding area with food and water until German soldiers relocated the pilot
Language: en
Pages: 254
Pages: 254
Tells the story of Lieutenant Lee Lamar, copilot of the B-24 "Bottoms Up," after his plane was shot down in 1944, recounting his capture and imprisonment as a POW, the identification of his plane's wreckage sixty years later by a Croatian archaeologist, and his journey back to Croatia with the
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Trial of World War II. As the tide of World War II turned, a hitherto unknown incident set a precedent for how we would bring wartime crimes to
Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
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