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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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. | |
520 | |a 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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600 | 1 | 0 | |a Slayton, Lowell, |d 1923-2013. |
600 | 1 | 1 | |a Slayton, Lowell, |d 1923- |
610 | 1 | 0 | |a United States. |b Army Air Forces. |b Bombardment Group, 381st |v Biography. |
610 | 1 | 0 | |a United States. |b Army Air Forces |x Aerial gunners |v Biography. |
610 | 2 | 0 | |a Stalag Luft IV |v Biography. |
650 | 0 | |a B-17 bomber |x History |y 20th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Aerial operations, American. | |
650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Campaigns |z Western Front. | |
650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Prisoners and prisons, German. | |
650 | 0 | |a Death marches |z Germany. | |
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