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Silent Heroes: Downed Airmen and the French Underground
Silent Heroes Downed Airmen and the French Underground
Author: Sherri Greene Ottis
In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crew members, supplied with “escape kits,” knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning home. An estimated 12,000 French civilians helped make this...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813121864
ISBN-10: 0813121868
Publication Date: 6/2001
Pages: 235
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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True story of the French Underground effort to help exacuate airmen and POWs back to Allied Foreces control.
The tales of courage, sacrafice and honor on behalf of these civilians are only offset by the dispecable, dishonesty and tratiorest acts of their fellow countrymen who would betray their efforts.
These selfless civilia s, who saved many Allied Forces personnel, were often met with violent ends when they were captured, yet they continuedtheir efforts in light of these risks.
A part of history that is not taught in American schools.


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