TY - BOOK AU - Smallwood,William L. ED - Project Muse. TI - Valor, guts, and luck: a B-17 tailgunner's survival story during World War II SN - 9781612346991 AV - D790.253 381st .S54 2014 U1 - 940.54/4973092B 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Lincoln, NB PB - Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press KW - Slayton, Lowell, KW - Stalag Luft IV KW - Biography KW - United States KW - Army Air Forces KW - Aerial gunners KW - Bomb Group (H), 381st KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Regimental histories KW - Prisoners of war KW - Germany KW - Death marches KW - Prisoners and prisons, German KW - Campaigns KW - Western Front KW - Aerial operations, American KW - B-17 bomber KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Mission number thirteen -- Little Slats -- I want you! -- The new crew -- Off to Ridgewell -- Into the deadly skies -- Brutal skies -- The final mission -- Prisoner patient -- Stalag Luft VI -- Deeper into the inferno -- Stalag Luft IV -- Goons, ferrets, and some good guy stories -- Winter descends -- Descent into the fifth circle -- Man as animal -- The decision -- Escape and ecstasy -- The doctors take over -- Going home -- The rest of the story UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781612346991/ ER -