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Author Smallwood, William L., author

Title Valor, guts, and luck : a B-17 tailgunner's survival story during World War II / William L. Smallwood
Published Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2014

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Contents 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
Summary The story of B - 17 tailgunner Lowell ""Slats"" Slayton who beat the odds during WW II - including being shot down, captured and held as a POW, and forced to march 300 miles from Poland to western Germany on the Black March during one of the coldest winters on record
Notes Print version record
Subject Slayton, Lowell, 1923-2013.
SUBJECT Slayton, Lowell, 1923-
Slayton, Lowell, 1923-2013 fast
Subject United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 381st -- Biography
United States. Army Air Forces -- Aerial gunners -- Biography
Stalag Luft IV -- Biography
SUBJECT Stalag Luft IV fast
United States. Army Air Forces fast
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 381st fast
Subject B-17 bomber -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Death marches -- Germany
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Armed Forces -- Aerial gunners
B-17 bomber
Death marches
Military campaigns
Military operations, Aerial -- American
Germany
Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014005742
ISBN 9781612346991
1612346995