Michael Lee Lanning
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vi, 349 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Michael Lee Lanning tells the story of the courageous airmen who evaded capture and escaped to safety after being shot from the skies during World War II. Lanning covers the hows and whys of escape-and-evasion and aerial combat in the European theater, but also vividly captures the stories of the airmen who did the escaping and evading.
"During World War II, some 10,000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard,...