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The Girl and the Bombardier

A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France

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The Girl and the Bombardier

Written by: Susan Tate Ankeny
Narrated by: Karen White
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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 60 years ago.

A remarkable hero emerged - Godelieve Van Laere - just a teenage girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate, risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century.

The result is an amazing, multifaceted World War II tale that 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.

©2020 Susan Tate Ankeny (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
20th Century France United States Wars & Conflicts World War II War Military Air Force
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I like this genre: the adult child finding a parent’s memoir from WWII.
Something new in this one: her father’s debriefing included his signature on a top secret document preventing him from speaking about his wartime experiences for 50 years. I knew government documents weren’t revealed for a long time, but had not thought about how they kept soldiers from speaking out. Makes sense now that it was explained!
Great detailed time of her father’s time being hidden by the French Resistance and the journey back to the UK to safety.

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