The Blister Club: The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II, Lanning Michael Lee

Автор: Bodson, Herman
Название: Downed allied airmen and evasion of capture
ISBN: 0786422165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786422166
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: During World War II, the citizens of occupied countries played a large role in resistance operations. This volume deals with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, in which the author himself was directly involved. He traces specific lines of escape and evasion and their main participants.

Автор: Campbell Douglas A.
Название: Eight Survived: The Harrowing Story of the USS Flier and the Only Downed World War II Submariners to Survive and Evade Capture
ISBN: 1493032852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493032853
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: The incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and evade enemy capture in WWII On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it steamed along the surface. All but fifteen of the more than eighty-strong crew went down with the vessel. Of those left floating in the dark, eight survived by swimming for seventeen hours before washing ashore on an uninhabited island. The story of the Flier and its eight survivors is wholly unique in the annals of U.S. military history. Eight Survived tells the gripping story of the doomed submarine and its crew from its first patrol, during which it sank several enemy ships, to the explosion in the Sulu Sea. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and on a visit to the jungle where they washed ashore--where a cast of fascinating characters helped the U.S. sailors evade the Japanese--Douglas Campbell fully captures the combination of extraordinary courage and luck that marked one of the most heroic episodes of World War II.