Thanks, Chris.
I'll look that out.
ChrisB
C M I Barker | Gamlingay
> On 19 Sep 2016, at 16:58, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> More so than you might imagine. I recently read the book "The Lost
> Airman" about a B-24 flight engineer and top turret gunner who was shot down
> during a bombing raid near Bordeaux. He described a number of flaws in the
> B-24, including the fact that the top of the fuselage was a fuel tank and
> that the only exit for bailing out was near the tail. The Germans would
> shoot incendiary rounds at the top of the aircraft to cause it to explode.
>
> The book describes what it was like to be concealed by the French
> Resistance while moving around in Vichy France, then walking across the
> Pyrenees into fascist Spain, avoiding Gestapo agents, and finally making it
> to Gibraltar. It is NOT a novel. Damned good read.
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