One way ticket to Berlin : a day in the life of the Mighty Eighth
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Contributors
Meurs, John compiler.
Published
Brandon, MS : Quail Ridge Press, 2016.
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LC Subjects
Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Airmen -- Biography.
United States. -- Army Air Forces. -- Air Force, 8th -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Airmen -- Biography.
United States. -- Army Air Forces. -- Air Force, 8th -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Published
Brandon, MS : Quail Ridge Press, 2016.
Format
Book
Street Date
1608
Language
English
Notes
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On an early morning in October 1944, two Allied airmen and six members of the Dutch underground were executed in a village in Nazi-occupied Holland. Later that morning their bodies were dropped on various street corners in the village with a note "Terrorist " on their chests. The airmen had been captured in the house of the boy who would later become the brother-in-law of John Meurs, the author of this book. The boy could escape but his mother was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany where she died a few months before the liberation of the camp by Allied troops.One of the airmen captured and killed belonged to the British RAF. The other was Bob Zercher, the ball-turret gunner of a B-17 of the 8th USAAF. He had arrived on Dutch soil on April 29, 1944 when his bomber crash-landed in the Eastern part of Holland. The whole crew was taken under the wings of the Dutch underground and survived the war with the exception of Bob Zercher who was initially buried in the cemetery of Apeldoorn, Netherlands.Meurs decided to research all crews of the Mighty Eighth who reported missing in action on that particular Saturday in 1944. He collected the personal story of veterans who lived through it, families of veterans lost, and witnesses of the crashes. These firsthand recollections provide a compelling and terrifying account of the realities of war.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Meurs, J. (2016). One way ticket to Berlin: a day in the life of the Mighty Eighth . Quail Ridge Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Meurs, John. 2016. One Way Ticket to Berlin: A Day in the Life of the Mighty Eighth. Quail Ridge Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Meurs, John. One Way Ticket to Berlin: A Day in the Life of the Mighty Eighth Quail Ridge Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Meurs, John. One Way Ticket to Berlin: A Day in the Life of the Mighty Eighth Quail Ridge Press, 2016.
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