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In the Shadows of War: an American Pilot''s Odyssey through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany.(Book Review)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 721 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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By Thomas Childers. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2002. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 443. $27.50 ISBN: 0-8050-5752-8.

On June 14, 1944, an American B-17 of the 457th Bombardment Group, flying a mission from England, was shot down over occupied France. The Roy a...

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...pilot, Allen, was Philadelphia native who had attended Duke University and was married a year earlier. Allen's plane fell some 100 km southeast of Paris. The last one to jump from the stricken aircraft, Allen lost contact with his crewmates. A young member of the French Resistance risked her life to help hide him in a girls' school. After his...

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