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Author : Earl Hendricks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Kriegie's Journey written by Earl Hendricks and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar G. Richard III
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807156787
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Kriegie written by Oscar G. Richard III and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar G. Richard - a native of Sunshine, Louisiana -was not the usual World War II serviceman. After enlisting in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 and training diligently for many months, the B-17 bombardier spent only one week in combat. On his third and last mission - on January 14, 1944 - his plane was shot down over France and he was imprisoned by the Germans. Thus, like many in the Eighth Air Force in late 1943 and early 1944, he spent most of the war not in combat but in captivity. In this memoir, Richard describes his wartime experiences both before and after his capture, recounting the transformation of a fresh-faced recruit into a seasoned POW. Offering insight into the early days of soldier life, he chronicles his enlistment, the months he spent waiting on the home front for induction, and his training at various sites in the American West. He gives accounts of his bombing missions and relives his parachute escape from his doomed plane and his subsequent seizure. The book relates the path that most German-held POWs, or "kriegies", took after capture: from the front lines to solitary confinement and interrogation at Dulag Luft, through a long and uncertain journey through Germany, to the final destination - for Richard, Stalag Luft 1, near Barth on the Baltic coast.
Author : Oscar G. Richard III
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807156795
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Kriegie written by Oscar G. Richard III and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar G. Richard - a native of Sunshine, Louisiana -was not the usual World War II serviceman. After enlisting in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 and training diligently for many months, the B-17 bombardier spent only one week in combat. On his third and last mission - on January 14, 1944 - his plane was shot down over France and he was imprisoned by the Germans. Thus, like many in the Eighth Air Force in late 1943 and early 1944, he spent most of the war not in combat but in captivity. In this memoir, Richard describes his wartime experiences both before and after his capture, recounting the transformation of a fresh-faced recruit into a seasoned POW. Offering insight into the early days of soldier life, he chronicles his enlistment, the months he spent waiting on the home front for induction, and his training at various sites in the American West. He gives accounts of his bombing missions and relives his parachute escape from his doomed plane and his subsequent seizure. The book relates the path that most German-held POWs, or "kriegies", took after capture: from the front lines to solitary confinement and interrogation at Dulag Luft, through a long and uncertain journey through Germany, to the final destination - for Richard, Stalag Luft 1, near Barth on the Baltic coast.
Author : Marilyn Jeffers Walton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491847069
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)
Download or read book From Interrogation to Liberation: a Photographic Journey Stalag Luft Iii written by Marilyn Jeffers Walton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, 300,000 United States Army Air Corps airmen were shot down. Of that number, 51,000 were prisoners of war or listed as missing in action. Bombardiers, positioned in the vulnerable bombardiers compartment at the front of the aircraft, were in high demand. The authors fathers were two such bombardiers, one on a B-17 and the other on a B-24. Like so many of the post-war generation, the authors traveled on their own emotional journeys to reconstruct their fathers WWII experiences. Their fathers fought in the flak-ridden blue battlefield, and like thousands of other airmen shot out of the sky, became prisoners of war. They would endure deprivation, loneliness, and great peril. Held at Stalag Luft III, where the Great Escape of movie fame took place, they, along with the British, were eventually force marched 52-miles in the dead of winter to Spremberg, Germany, and loaded onto overcrowded, filthy, boxcars, the Americans to be taken to Stalag VIIA in Moosburg, Germany, or to Stalag XIII-D in N rnberg. Languishing until their liberation in barbaric conditions with nearly 120,000 international POWs, they witnessed the death throes of the Third Reich. With many sons and daughters trying to explore the wartime histories of their loved ones, the authors supply crucial information and insight regarding the World War II POW experience in Europe. Often times, by necessity, that experience reflects the co-existence and tenuous relationship with the Germans holding them. In this book, there are stories that up until now have not been heard, and there are hundreds of pictures, many previously unseen, illustrating the prisoners plight. This book is a documentation of riveting history and a chance to vicariously live the war, told through their voices --echoes now fading with time. Their sacrifices to ensure precious freedom should never be forgotten.
Author : Gerald Sherwood
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399012525
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Bomber Command Pilot: From the Battle of Britain to the Augsburg Raid written by Gerald Sherwood and published by Air World. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sherwood was commissioned into the RAF as a pilot officer on leaving school in 1936. In mid-1940, he was posted to a frontline bomber squadron. He went on to undertake a full tour of thirty sorties against enemy targets during the summer of 1940, earning himself a Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in what has become known as the ‘Battle of the Barges’. Sherwood flew Manchesters on a further series of eventful bombing missions against the enemy, earning a Bar to the DFC in recognition of his determination and leadership. It was in the new Lancasters that Sherwood, by then a Squadron Leader, undertook his most daring mission. This was Operation Margin, the attack upon the M.A.N. diesel engine works at Augsburg in Bavaria on 17 April 1942. This involved a flight of some 600 miles in broad daylight with no fighter escort, flying at less than 250 feet in order to avoid enemy radar. The raid was led by both Sherwood and Squadron Leader John Nettleton. Sherwood was shot down during the raid and was duly posted as missing. Assumed dead for six weeks, he eventually surfaced as a prisoner of war in German hands at Stalag Luft III. Operation Margin was considered a success and both squadron leaders involved were recommended for the award of the Victoria Cross. Whilst Nettleton’s citation was approved, and the VC duly invested, Sherwood’s was amended by the Air Ministry to state: ‘To be recommended for DSO, if found to be alive.’ The DSO was gazetted on 30 June 1942. Whilst in captivity, Sherwood witnessed at first-hand the Wooden Horse escape, the infamous Great Escape, and, finally, the Long March across Germany in the last winter of the war in Europe. He was finally repatriated to the UK during Operation Exodus after the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. Written by his son, Bomber Command Pilot provides a fascinating insight into the development of Bomber Command into the powerful strike force that helped turn the tide of victory in the West.
Author : Kenneth Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951682835
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Kriegie written by Kenneth Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kriegie: Prisoner of War, first published in 1960, is the World War Two account of American airman Kenneth Simmons (8th Air Force) who was forced to bail out after his aircraft was damaged on a bombing run over Germany. He describes his capture and imprisonment as a 'kriegie' (prisoner-of-war) at Stalag Luft II. The book is filled with details of prison life and the complex organization established by the prisoners to help ensure their survival, and to maintain healthy conditions and order. Escape plans are made and tunnels constructed. Near the end of the war, and in the cold of winter, the prisoners are moved on foot to a new location in Germany in what became a "death march" with many prisoners dying or extremely ill. In late April 1945, units of General George Patton's Third Army reach the camp, and prepare the men for their journey back to the United States.
Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297858238
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Journey's End written by Kevin Wilson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' Observer In February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The controversy that erupted shortly afterwards, and which continues to this day, has long overshadowed the other events of the bomber war, and blighted the memory of the young men who gave their lives to fight in the skies over Germany. Journey's End neither condemns nor condones the bombing of Dresden, but puts it in its proper context as part of a much larger campaign. To the young men who flew over Germany night after night there were other much more pressing worries: the V2 rockets that threatened their loved ones at home; the brand new German jet fighters that could strike them at speeds of over 600mph. They lived life at a heightened tempo during these final unforgiving months of the bomber war when no quarter was given on either side. As the climactic volume in Kevin Wilson's acclaimed bomber war trilogy, Journey's End chronicles the brutal endgame of a conflict that caused such devastation and tragedy on both sides.
Author : Stephen Dando-Collins
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250087570
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Big Break written by Stephen Dando-Collins and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs). The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500 Americans ultimately housed there. Plucky Americans attempted a variety of escapes until January, 1945, only to be thwarted every time. Then, with the Red Army advancing closer every day, camp commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders from Berlin to march his prisoners west. Game on! Over the next few days, 250 US Army officers would succeed in escaping east to link up with the Russians - although they would prove almost as dangerous as the Nazis - only to be ordered once they arrived back in the United States not to talk about their adventures. Within months, General Patton would launch a bloody bid to rescue the remaining Schubin Americans. In The Big Break, this previously untold story follows POWs including General Eisenhower's personal aide, General Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest son as they struggled to be free. Military historian and Paul Brickhill biographer Stephen Dando-Collins expertly chronicles this gripping story of Americans determined to be free, brave Poles risking their lives to help them, and dogmatic Nazis determined to stop them.
Author : Glenn A. Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Kriegies, Caterpillars and Lucky Bastards written by Glenn A. Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William L. Smallwood
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346928
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Valor, Guts, and Luck written by William L. Smallwood and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, a B-17 tailgunner had a one-in-four chance of survival during his standard twenty-five-mission tour. Valor, Guts, and Luck is the story of Staff Sergeant Lowell "Slats" Slayton (1923-2013), who beat those odds. An underprivileged kid from Fargo, North Dakota, Slayton was a high school senior the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Drawn to the glamour of the "wild blue yonder" made famous by newsreels, he joined the Army Air Force. Eventually he found himself on an unlucky thirteenth mission to the main FW-190 fighter aircraft plant in Oschersleben, Germany. After being hit by a rocket, his plane left the protection of the formation and was immediately attacked by a swarm of fighter aircraft, resulting in damage that forced a crash landing in Germany. Slayton, though wounded, survived the crash landing, spending time in three hospitals and two POW camps before enduring a three hundred-plus mile trek from Poland to western Germany during one of the coldest winters on record. Through Slayton's recollections, William L. Smallwood conveys the riveting tales of life in the Air Corps, aerial combat, and the horrific experiences of a prisoner of war. Through it all, Slayton's valor, guts, and luck made it possible for him to enjoy a homecoming after the war.
Author : John J. Hurt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494966
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Odyssey of a Bombardier written by John J. Hurt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War “log” that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17 “Flying Fortress” was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the final year of World War II. The log follows Mason from the day his plane crashed until his liberation in April, 1945, and his return home to the United States. Included are such topics as medical treatment and rehabilitation for wounded prisoners of the Germans, life in Stalag Luft III, a difficult long march in an arctic winter to another camp, the travails of prisoners in the overcrowded, filthy camp at Moosburg, critical food shortages, and the arrival of General George Patton with the liberating forces. Mason was an amateur artist and illustrated his journal with moving depictions of prison life and comradeship. This book shows U.S. airmen demonstrating grace and courage under pressure and meeting every challenge that their imprisonment presented.
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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clayton G. Metcalf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book "Kriegy." written by Clayton G. Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Bishop
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468313312
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Cooler King written by Patrick Bishop and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the WWII pilot who inspired Steve McQueen’s character in The Great Escape: “An extraordinary chronicle of resolve and heroism.” —Midwest Book Review When American fighter pilot William Ash’s plane was shot down over France in 1942, he was captured by German forces and placed in a Nazi prison camp. Ash, bolstered by the grit and ingenuity he developed during his upbringing in Texas during the Great Depression, would spend the rest of the war defying the Nazis and striving to escape from every POW camp in which they incarcerated him. His thrilling exploits made him the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in The Great Escape. Ash’s is a saga full of incident and high drama, climaxing in a breakout through a tunnel dug in the latrines of the Oflag XXIB prison camp in Poland—a great untold episode of World War II. Alongside William Ash is a cast of fascinating characters, including Roger Bushell, who would go on to lead the Great Escape, and Paddy Barthropp, a dashing Battle of Britain pilot who became Ash’s best friend and shared many of his adventures. The Cooler King is the uplifting story of one man’s extraordinary resilience in the face of impossible odds, and stands as an inspirational testament to the invincible spirit of liberty.
Author : Frank Farr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418480417
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book P.O.W. written by Frank Farr and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born a bastard, died a bastard. . ." These are the unhappy epitaphs that await the bastard child. "We are like trash tossed to' and fro' along the gutters of filthy streets, but we are not trash. We are the unloved, invalidated sons and daughters of society who search the world over looking for our father's blessings, and yearning for his love." And so too, Lorraine Williams searched, never comprehending the senseless years of rejection from her father and his family, until his death starts to unravel a web of deception spun by her own mother many years before. But is it much too late? Lorraine is slipping over the edge into a world of insanity, brought on by years of depression and trauma for never knowing her true identity, and never being allowed to ask. Contemplating killing herself and all of daddy's' beloved children as they weep at his open grave, Lorraine tucks the shiny new gun into the waist band of her cutoff jeans, and waits for the funeral procession to arrive. But is this man truly her father? Years later, a fated letter falls into the hands of a famous talk show host, and a televised DNA test finally reveals pieces of the truth about her identity. An unrelenting desire for answers drives Lorraine to do the unthinkable or die, for life without love is not worth living. This is a story for every parent unsure about the identity of themselves, their child, or if they should tell them the truth about their paternity. It's said the sins of the parents do indeed fall heavily on the children, and fatherless children have no rights. They have no rights to their medical histories, paternal grandparents, siblings, family heritage, inheritance, name, heirlooms, property, relatives - not even the right to grieve for the loss of their father. They are a helpless breed, dependent totally on the integrity of their mothers, surrogate fathers, and family to help them be whole. Lorraine's tale penetrates the core of life as an outsider, one of society's outcasts, struggling to remain whole in a broken family and broken world. Her story will make you laugh out loud, and weep with her. No emotion is left untouched, as Lorraine takes you on a raw and exhausting journey through the darker side of life and love. This novel is based on a true story, , though names and locations have been changed to protect the privacy of certain individuals. Some events have heightened dramatization for the author's creative purposes.
Author : Erik Dyreborg
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595249906
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book The Lucky Ones written by Erik Dyreborg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lucky Ones is a collection of stories gathered from the wartime experiences of a few US airmen who served in the 8th Air Force Bomb Groups in England during WWII. The stories in this collection, narrated by the airmen themselves, recount the harrowing adventures the airmen endured in their most trying missions over Europe. These are stories of encounters with enemy fighters, struggles to control flak-damaged planes, grueling crash landings, and desperate bail-outs from burning planes. Many airmen, fortunate enough to survive these experiences, were captured by the Germans once on the ground. Their treatment at the hands of their captors is painfully re-told here. Miraculously some airmen managed to evade captivity and escape the Germans, sometimes as an entire crew. In the course of the war, more than 30,000 young Americans lost their lives over Europe. As one airman said: “The real heroes...were the many...who died in combat.” These are the stories of other heroes who survived what seemed certain death. These are the stories of The Lucky Ones.
Author : Oliver Clutton-Brock
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909166308
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Footprints on the Sands of Time written by Oliver Clutton-Brock and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of RAF Evaders provides a comprehensive reference of the airmen of Bomber Command who were held in German captivity during WWII. This extensive book is divided into two part. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps—capture, escape, illness, and murder—and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands. Roughly one in every twenty captured airmen never returned home. The first part also covers subjects such as how the POWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war’s end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital importance of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part gripping narrative, and the book will correct many historical inaccuracies, and includes previously unpublished photographs. The second part comprises an annotated list of ALL 10, 995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction. The two parts together are the fruit of exhaustive research and provide an important contribution to our knowledge of the war and a unique reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-POWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
