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050 00 $aD805.G3$bJ43 2005
082 00 $a940.54/4973/092$aB$222
100 1 $aJefferson, Alexander,$d1921-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004148363
245 10 $aRed Tail captured, Red Tail free :$bmemoirs of a Tuskegee airman and POW /$cAlexander Jefferson, with Lewis H. Carlson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFordham University Press,$c2005.
300 $axxii, 133 pages :$billustrations, map, plans ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aWorld War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 125-128) and index.
520 1 $a"This book is one of the few memoirs of combat in World War II by a distinguished African-American pilot. It is also perhaps the only account of the African-American experience behind barbed wire in a German prison camp." "Alexander Jefferson was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down while fighting for a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. A Detroit native, Jefferson enlisted in the Army reserve in 1942, and immediately volunteered for flight training. He joined the Army Air Corps and trained at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, becoming a second lieutenant in 1943. It was then he joined one of the most decorated units in the War, flying powerful P-51 fighters with their legendary - and feared - "red tails."" "Based in Ramitelli, Italy, Jefferson escorted B-17 and B-24 bombers on missions over Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Germany, and France. In August 1944, on his nineteenth mission - strafing and knocking out German radar stations on the French Mediterranean coast in advance of Allied invasions during Operation Dragoon - Jefferson was shot down by German guns. Captured, he spent the balance of the war in Luftwaffe prison camps, first in Stalag Luft III in Sagan, southeast of Berlin, and later, as the Red Army advanced, evacuated westward to Stalag VIIA near Moosburg. His camp was liberated by tanks from George Patton's 14th Armored Division on April 29, 1945."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aJefferson, Alexander,$d1921-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004148363
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xParticipation, African American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113880
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy Air Forces.$bFighter Group, 332nd.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78053693
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113567
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113356
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109067
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zGermany$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109311
650 0 $aFighter pilots$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103715
650 0 $aAfrican American air pilots$vBiography.
700 1 $aCarlson, Lewis H.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85089297
830 0 $aWorld War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002035922
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029414.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hD805.G3$iJ43 2005