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02375aam a2200265 i 4500 001 E61FC17C56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 210609s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1684511925 020 $a 9781684511921 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Avriett, Carole Engle,. 245 1 $a Coffin corner boys : $b one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France / $c Carole Engle Avriett with George W. Starks. 264 1 $a Washington, D.C : $b Regnery History, $c 2021. 300 $a 1 volume ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a Taking off from England on March 16, 1944, young Lt. George Starks and the nine-man crew of his Flying Fortress were assigned to the âcoffin corner,â the most exposed position in the bomber formation headed for Germany. They never got there. Shot down over Nazi-occupied France, the airmen bailed out one by one, scattered across the countryside. Miraculously, all ten survived, but as they discarded their parachutes in the farmland of Champagne, their wartime odyssey was only beginning. Alone, with a broken foot and a 20mm shell fragment in his thigh, twenty-year-old Starks set out on an incredible 300-mile trek to Switzerland, making his way with the help of ordinary men and women who often put themselves in great danger on his behalf. Six weeks later, on the verge of giving up, Starks found himself in the hands of a heroic member of the French Resistanceâhe calls him âthe bravest man Iâve ever knownââwho got him safely across the heavily guarded border. Similar ordeals awaited the other nine crewmen, who faced injury, betrayal, cap-tivity, hunger, and depression. It was nothing short of miraculous that all ten came home at the end of the war. George Starks emerged from his ordeal with two passionsâto stay in touch with his crew whatever the obstacles and to return to France to find and thank the brave souls to whom he owed his life. His enduring loyalty enabled him to do both. 541 $d 20230612. 600 1 $a Starks, George W. 650 4 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 $a World war, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z France. 700 $a Starks, George W.,. 941 $a 1 952 $l VPPC384 $d 20230919010736.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E61FC17C56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search