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2) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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A beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a major motion picture
Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Kevin Maurer's Damn Lucky tells the true story of "Lucky" Luckadoo who flew some of the deadliest missions of World War II during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. Lucky served with the 100th Bomber Group during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. His story starts with his quest to join the Air Force, through 25 missions in combat over Germany, to the one mission-a raid over Bremen-where Luckadoo felt...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A history recounting the events and experiences of the World War II bomber pilots of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, the armed forces group that conducted daytime bombing of Germany in advance of the Allied soldiers' arrival on the ground.
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