POW No. 3959
Memoir of a World War II Airman Shot Down Over Germany
In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active duty by the U.S. Army. Ordered to the European Theatre of Operations in February 1944, Sgt. Sirianni served as the right waist gunner on a B-17. On his seventh mission over Germany, the plane?severely damaged by German fighters?crashed near Wildeshausen. With shrapnel in his legs and shoulder, Sirianni bailed out, and he spent the following 15 months in the infamous Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp. This memoir offers harrowing stories of combat, including detailed descriptions of each of Sirianni's combat missions; reveals the horrors of confinem…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Brown, Patricia I.
- ISBN: 978-0-7864-2297-5
- EAN: 9780786422975
- Produktnummer: 1491611
- Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.8 cm x D1.2 cm 299 g
- Abbildungen: Photographs
- Gewicht: 299
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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