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Two WWII fighter pilots, raised on different continents and trained in different countries, fight life or death combat with the Luftwaffe over Europe. They flew P-51 Mustangs in the 4th Fighter Group and contributed to the Group score of a record 1000-plus enemy planes destroyed, the highest total of any Allied Group. They became Aces within a day of each other; then one was killed in combat on D-Day, while the other, having been shot down, trekked across northern Germany in a futile effort to evade capture.

He is finally captured and as a POW, is forced to participate in a "Death March." After several unsuccessful attempts, he and a fellow POW finally escape. Leading a handful of French forced-laborers they capture 25 German soldiers, turn them over to Patton's advancing Third Army and eventually return to the U.S. by hospital ship.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: historical, political & military

• Full title: One Down, One Dead
• Author: Frank Speer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 228
• EAN: 9781401099077
• ISBN: 1401099076
• ID: 32952389
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Weight: 485 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 149 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. May 2003

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