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04274aam a2200649Ii 4500 001 42A5B5CC8B0811EC8692ACEB22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220211010013 008 211119s2021 meuab db 000 0beng d 020 $a 1432892800 020 $a 9781432892807 040 $a JBI $b eng $e rda $c JBI $d IK2 $d SO$ $d BKL $d JQM $d UAP $d OCLCF $d JTH $d ZGJ $d SILO 082 04 $a 940.547243092 100 1 $a Clavin, Thomas $e author. 245 10 $a Lightning down $h [large print] : $b a World War II story of survival / $c Tom Clavin. 246 30 $a World War II story of survival 246 3 $a World War 2 story of survival 250 $a Large print edition, unabridged. 264 1 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2021. 300 $a 457 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 23 cm 340 $a large print $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-454). 505 0 $a Prologue -- The farm boy -- The passenger -- The prisoner -- The survivor -- Epilogue. 520 $a "The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just 22 years old, a farmboy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the war he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began. Joe Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured against impossible odds in the most horrific surroundings... until the day the orders are issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan might save them. The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family. Lightning Down is a can't-put-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival" -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Moser, Joseph F. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, German. 610 20 $a Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Germany. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z United States. 650 0 $a Fighter pilots $z United States $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b Fighter Squadron, 429th $b Fighter Squadron, 429th $v Biography. 650 0 $a Large type books. 600 17 $a Moser, Joseph F. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01993031 610 27 $a Buchenwald (Concentration camp) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00726764 610 17 $a United States. $b Fighter Squadron, 429th. $b Fighter Squadron, 429th. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00536693 650 7 $a Fighter pilots. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923988 650 7 $a Prisoners of war. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077227 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 650 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military 650 $a History / Military / World War II 650 $a LARGE PRINT / HISTORY / Military / World War II 650 $a LARGE PRINT / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710062312.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611013450.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030452.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221206011330.0 952 $l HLPC845 $d 20220628010906.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20220211010046.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42A5B5CC8B0811EC8692ACEB22ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b ZGJInitiate Another SILO Locator Search