Ebook: The Secret Rescue
Author: Lineberry Cate
- Tags: Aircraft accidents, Aircraft accidents--Albania, Airplane crash survival, Airplane crash survival--Albania, Airplanes Military--Accidents, Airplanes Military--Accidents--Albania, Armed Forces--Search and rescue operations, Medical care, Search and rescue operations, Search and rescue operations--Albania, World War 1939-1945--Medical care, World War 1939-1945--Search and rescue operations--Albania, United States. -- Army Air Forces. -- Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron 807th, United States. -- Ar
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Little
- Language: English
- epub
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"THE SECRET RESCUE combines all of the elements that draw us to WWII stories: the daring of The Guns of Navarone, the suspense of The Great Escape, and the bravery reminiscent of Ill Met by Moonlight. It's the inclusion of so many women, though, that makes this story unique.'' — Daily Beast
This mesmerizing account of the courage and bravery of ordinary women and men reveals for the first time an astonishing true story of heroic struggle and endurance.
When twenty-six Army Air Force flight nurses and medics boarded a military transport plane in November 1943 on a mission to evacuate wounded and sick troops, they didn't anticipate a crash landing in Nazi territory.
Emerging from their battered aircraft, the Americans found themselves in Albania, a country rife with chaos and danger. With hunger and sickness as their constant companions, they...
"THE SECRET RESCUE combines all of the elements that draw us to WWII stories: the daring of The Guns of Navarone, the suspense of The Great Escape, and the bravery reminiscent of Ill Met by Moonlight. It's the inclusion of so many women, though, that makes this story unique.'' — Daily Beast
This mesmerizing account of the courage and bravery of ordinary women and men reveals for the first time an astonishing true story of heroic struggle and endurance.
When twenty-six Army Air Force flight nurses and medics boarded a military transport plane in November 1943 on a mission to evacuate wounded and sick troops, they didn't anticipate a crash landing in Nazi territory.
Emerging from their battered aircraft, the Americans found themselves in Albania, a country rife with chaos and danger. With hunger and sickness as their constant companions, they...
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