Just got this from Amazon - ordered almost a month ago. (y)
**Coffin Corner Boys
One Bomber, Ten Men, and Their Harrowing Escape from Nazi-Occupied France**
*As a young band of brothers flies over German-occupied France, they come under heavy fire. Their B-17 is shot down and the airmen—stumbling through fields and villages—scatter across Europe. Some struggled to flee for safety. Others were captured immediately and imprisoned. Now, for the first time, their incredible story of grit, survival, and reunion is told.
Airmen called George’s position the “Coffin Corner” (low squadron, low group, flying #6 in the bomber box formation) because here exposure was most likely to draw hostile fire. Sure enough, George’s plane was shot down by a German Fw190, and he jumped at 25,000 feet for the “first and only time,” as he tells the story. He landed near Vitry-le-Perthois to begin a 300-mile trek through the dangers of war-torn France towards the freedom of neutral Switzerland
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