Valor, Guts, and Luck A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II

Author/Creator:: Smallwood, William L.
Publication/Creation:: Lincoln, NB : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Format:: Book

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Full Title:: Valor, Guts, and Luck A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II / William L. Smallwood

Subjects:: Stalag Luft IV--Biography
United States.Army Air Forces--Aerial gunners--Biography
United States.Army Air Forces.Bomb Group (H), 381st--Biography
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States
Prisoners of war--United States--Biography
Prisoners of war--Germany--Biography
Death marches--Germany
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American
B-17 bomber--History--20th century

Table of 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.
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (203 p.)
General Note:: Description based upon print version of record.