Lightning down : a World War II story of survival

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Label

Lightning down : a World War II story of survival

Title remainder

a World War II story of survival

Statement of responsibility

Tom Clavin

Creator

• Clavin, Thomas

Author

• Clavin, Thomas

Subject

• Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
• Electronic books
• Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography
• Moser, Joseph F
• Prisoners of war -- Germany
• Prisoners of war -- United States
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
• United States, Army Air Forces | Fighter Squadron, 429th -- Biography
• Biographies

Genre

• Electronic books
• Personal narratives, American
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

The incredible true story of an American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 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 farm boy 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 most horrific surroundings... until the day the orders are issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan might save them.The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family.Lightning Down is a can't-put-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

• 940.54/7243092
• B

Index

index present

LC call number

D805.5.B83

LC item number

C53 2021eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography