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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 21 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Karen White. |
| Summary |
Susan Tate Ankeny was sorting through the belongings of her late father-a World War II bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944-when she found two boxes. One contained her dad's Air Force uniform, and the other an unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade from that moment tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father's story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago. A remarkable hero emerged-Godelieve Van Laere-just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate, risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century. The result is an amazing, multifaceted World War II tale that traces the transformation of a small-town American boy into a bombardier, the thrill and chaos of an air war, and the horror of bailing from a flaming aircraft over enemy territory. It distinguishes the actions of a little-known French resistance network for Allied airmen known as Shelburne. And it shines a light on the courage and cunning of a young woman who put her life on the line to save another's. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence.
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Bombardiers -- United States.
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Teenage girls -- France.
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France -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
White, Karen (Karen Elizabeth), narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781696601597 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1696601592 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13341053 |
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