Wings of Morning: the Story of the Last American Bomber Shot down Overgermany in World War II by Thomas Childers

Wings of Morning: the Story of the Last American Bomber Shot down Overgermany in World War II by Thomas Childers

On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theater of World War I. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew--where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to fly a B-24 through enemy flak, and who was waiting for them to come home.Historian Thomas Childers, nephew of the Black Cat's radio operator, has reconstructed the lives and tragic deaths of these men through their letters home and through in-depth interviews, both with their families and with German villagers who lived near the crash site. In so doing he unearths confusion about the exact number of crash survivors and ugly rumors of their fate at the hands of the German villagers. His search to determine what really happened leads him to the crash site outside of Regensburg to lay the mystery to rest.In the tradition of Young Men and Fire, Wings of Morning is history as commemoration-an evocation of people and events that brings to life a story of love, loss, and a family's quest for truth.

Childers, Thomas: - Thomas Childers was formerly the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. Childers has held visiting professorships at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, Smith College, and Swarthmore College, and he has lectured in London, Oxford, Berlin, Munich, and other universities in the United States and Europe. He is the author or editor of several books about modern German history and the Second World War.

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ISBN 13	9780201483109
ISBN 10	0201483106
Title	Wings of Morning: the Story of the Last American Bomber Shot down Overgermany in World War II
Author	Thomas Childers
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pearson Education Limited
Year published	1995-04-26
Number of pages	276
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