Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs. PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES: 1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING:8th Air Force 92nd Bomb Group B-17 crew downed March 16, 1944. "Gripping...filled with...dramatic escapes, moments of surprising humanity, and acts of bravery." --Publishers Weekly A Story of Adventure, Survival, Loyalty, and Brotherhood Taking off from England on March 16, 1944, young Lt. George Starks and the nine-man crew of his Flying Fortress were assigned to the "coffin corner," the most exposed position in the bomber formation headed for Germany. They never got there. Shot down over Nazi-occupied France, the airmen bailed out one by one, scattered across the countryside. Miraculously, all ten survived, but as they discarded their parachutes in the farmland of Champagne, their wartime odyssey was only beginning. Alone, with a broken foot and a 20mm shell fragment in his thigh, twenty-year-old Starks set out on an incredible 300-mile trek to Switzerland, making his way with the help of ordinary men and women who often put themselves in great danger on his behalf. Six weeks later, on the verge of giving up, Starks found himself in the hands of a heroic member of the French Resistance--he calls him "the bravest man I've ever known"--who got him safely across the heavily guarded border. Similar ordeals awaited the other nine crewmen, who faced injury, betrayal, captivity, hunger, and depression. It was nothing short of miraculous that all ten came home at the end of the war. George Starks emerged from his ordeal with two passions--to stay in touch with his crew whatever the obstacles and to return to France to find and thank the brave souls to whom he owed his life. His enduring loyalty enabled him to do both.
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Location: Livonia, Michigan
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Book Title: Coffn Corner Boys
Book Series: World War II Collection
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, an Eagle Publishing Company
Item Length: 9 in
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
Vintage: No
Publication Year: 2021
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1940s
Item Height: 0.9 in
Author: Carole Engle Avriett
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Aviation, Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat, Biography & Autobiography
Topic: Aircraft, Air Force, Memoir, Military History, True Military Stories, World War II, Military / World War II, Military / Aviation, Military
Subjects: History & Military
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
