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An American transport carrying secret documents is shot down over Communist territory and the lone survivor must evade capture and escape to friendly turf.
A downed American airman must run for his life to evade capture by the Communists in Cold War Albania in the 1950s. His chance meeting with friendly partisans, one of them a beautiful woman, sends him running back an forth across Albania, one step ahead of the authorities. Aided by an old WW II spy suitcase radio, he makes contact with the Americans whose attempts to extract him from danger could start WW III. His exploits are funny, amourous and sometimes lethal, and will keep the reader on edge until the very last page.
The novel is based an an actual mission flown by the au | |  | | Departure Message
Chronicles of an Airborne Radio Operator--one of the very last of them, and the trials and tribulations of being stationed near Paris at the age of 20, and flying all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
This memior preserves for history the days when most airplanes could not fly without a crewmember to operate the complicated and bulky radios of the time, and the skill of the men who could communicate in International Morse code. Gone from the face of the earth, replaced by new technology, the flying radiomen are almost forgotten, along with the Air Force of the time, and the aircraft they flew. |
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