Valor, guts, and luck [electronic resource] : a B-17 tailgunner's survival story during World War II / William L. Smallwood.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lincoln, NB : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781612346991
- 1612346995
- Slayton, Lowell, 1923-
- Stalag Luft IV -- Biography
- United States. Army Air Forces -- Aerial gunners -- Biography
- United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group (H), 381st -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography
- Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography
- 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
- 940.54/4973092 B 23
- D790.253 381st .S54 2014
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.
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