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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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"This enthralling WWII biography combines a downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished memoir with letters from the French girl who saved his life. Susan Tate Ankeny's father was a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944. After he died, she found his unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father's story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago. While piecing together her father's wartime experience, Ankeny discovered a remarkable hero. Godelieve Van Laere was just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate, risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century. The result is a fascinating and dramatic World War II tale enhanced by personal interviews with participants. It traces the transformation of a small-town American boy into a bombardier, the thrill and chaos of aerial warfare, and the horror of bailing from a flaming aircraft over enemy territory. It distinguishes the actions of a little-known French resistance network for Allied airmen known as Shelburne. And it shines a light on the courage and cunning of a young woman who risked her life to save another."-- Provided by Freading. |
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Publisher metadata. |
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Ankeny, Susan Tate -- Family.
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Tate, Dean.
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Van Laere, Godelieve.
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United States. Air Force -- Biography.
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Bombardiers -- United States -- Biography.
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Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
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Biographies.
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Interviews.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781635767148 (epub) |
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9781635767179 (print) |
| Standard No. |
9781635767148 |
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