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Pow #3959 : memoir of a World War II airman shot down over Germany

"This memoir offers harrowing stories of combat, including detailed descriptions of each of Sirianni's combat missions; reveals the horrors of confinement and the despair of skin-of-the-teeth survival; and remembers camaraderie in the face of German abuse."--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2006
McFarland, Jefferson, N.C., ©2006
Autobiography
vii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780786422975, 0786422971
62127854
From high school quarterback to aerial gunner
Combat training
Going overseas
The missions
Captured
Dulag Luft interrogation center
Stalag Luft I: the first three months
Stalag Luft I: things get worse
Stalag Luft I: the last days
Going home at last
Revisiting Stalag Luft I years later
Searching for the plane's crash site
Includes index