Shootdown
| Titel: | Shootdown : a World War II bomber pilot's experience as a prisoner of war in Germany / by William H. Wheeler |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Shippensburg, Pa. : Burd Street Press, 2002 |
| Umfang: | VII, 211 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 1572493100 |
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After completing pilot training in July 1942, Lieutenant William Wheeler was assigned to a heavy bombardment group to be trained as a bomber pilot. In March 1943 he flew overseas as an aircraft commander of a B-17 combat replacement crew where they joined the 91st Bomb Group at Bassingbourn in England for combat duty. Wheeler was held as a prisoner of war for 21 months in Stalag Luft III after being shot down on his 24th mission over Schweinfurt, Germany, in August 1943.
