One Down, One Dead

Two WWII fighter pilots, raised on different continents and trained in different countries, fight life or death combat with the Luftwaffe over Europe. They flew P-51 Mustangs in the 4th Fighter Group and contributed to the Group score of a record 1000-plus enemy planes destroyed, the highest total of any Allied Group. They became Aces within a day of each other; then one was killed in combat on D-Day, while the other, having been shot down, trekked across northern Germany in a futile effort to evade capture. He is finally captured and as a POW, is forced to participate in a "Death March." After several unsuccessful attempts, he and a fellow POW finally escape. Leading a handful of French forced-laborers they capture 25 German soldiers, turn them over to Patton's advancing Third Army and eventually return to the U.S. by hospital ship.

Author: Frank Speer
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 05/27/2003
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.62w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781401099060
ISBN10: 1401099068
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | Military | Aviation & Space
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

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