|aLightning sky :|ba U.S. fighter pilot captured during WWII and his father's quest to find him /|cR. C. George ; foreword by Marcus Brotherton.
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|aNew York, NY :|bCitadel Press,|c2019
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|axiv, 290 p., [8] p. of plates :|bill. ;|c24 cm
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|aIncludes bibliographical references.
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|aA U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determinedto rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II. OnOctober 6, 1944, twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second LieutenantDavid "Mac" Warren MacArthur was on a strafing mission over Greece when his P-38 Lightning was struck over the Adriatic Sea. Catptured by the Germans, he spent the duration of the war shuttled from camp to camp. Meanwhile, his father, Lieutenant Colonel Vaughn MacArthur, a chaplain with the 8th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army, never stopped searching for his son. In May, 1945 he finally found him at Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany--Adapted from jacket flap.
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|aMacArthur, David Warren.
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|aMacArthur, Vaughn.
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|aStalag VII A.
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|aAir pilots, Military|zUnited States|vBiography.
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|aPrisoners of war|zUnited States|vBiography.
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|aWorld War, 1939-1945|vPersonal narratives, American.
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|aWorld War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, American.