Valor, guts, and luck : a B-17 tailgunner's survival story during World War II /

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.

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Main Author: Smallwood, William L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2014
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505 0 |a 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. 
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