Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival PDF
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The true story of an American fighter pilot imprisoned within the walls of Buchenwald, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.
Moser was just 22 years old, a farmboy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the war he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began.
Joe Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured against impossible odds in the...
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