{"product_id":"the-girl-and-the-bombardier-a-true-story-of-resistance-and-rescue-in-nazi-occupied-france-9781635767179","title":"The Girl and the Bombardier: A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France","description":"\u003cb\u003eA downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished World War II memoir and a box of letters from the French girl who saved him sets a veteran's daughter on a journey, sixty-five years later, to craft their intersecting stories--a true WWII tale of danger, courage, love, and escape \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Susan Tate Ankeny was sorting through the belongings of her late father--a World War II bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944--when she found two boxes. One contained her dad's Air Force uniform, and the other an unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade from that moment tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father's story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A remarkable hero emerged--Godelieve Van Laere--just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate, risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The result is an amazing, multifaceted World War II tale--perhaps one of the last of its kind to be enriched by an author's interviews with participants. It traces the transformation of a small-town American boy into a bombardier, the thrill and chaos of an air war, and the horror of bailing from a flaming aircraft over enemy territory. It distinguishes the actions of a little-known French resistance network for Allied airmen known as Shelburne. And it shines a light on the courage and cunning of a young woman who put her life on the line to save another's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diversion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635767179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Susan Tate Ankeny","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36663846404252,"sku":"9781635767179","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_80d5941e-1586-4b12-b9dd-a9c37cb791e8.jpg?v=1603905203","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-girl-and-the-bombardier-a-true-story-of-resistance-and-rescue-in-nazi-occupied-france-9781635767179","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}