TY  - BOOK
AU  - Okerstrom,Dennis R.
TI  - The final mission of Bottoms Up: a World War II pilot's story 
T2  - The American military experience series
SN  - 9780826272676
AV  - D790 .O43 2011eb
U1  - 940.5449 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Columbia, Missouri, London
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Lamar, Lee
KW  - Bottoms Up (B-24 bomber)
KW  - United States
KW  - Army Air Forces
KW  - Biography
KW  - Stalag Luft I
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
KW  - Bitterfeld
KW  - B-24 (Bomber)
KW  - Bomber pilots
KW  - Air pilots, Military
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Germany
KW  - Barth
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, German
KW  - B-24 (Bombardier)
KW  - Pilotes de bombardiers
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Pilotes d'aéronef militaires
KW  - Prisonniers de guerre
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - World War II
KW  - Military operations, Aerial
KW  - American
KW  - Kampfflieger
KW  - Kriegsgefangener
KW  - Camp King
KW  - Personal Narrative
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Récits personnels
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247) and index; Over Udine, Italy -- Krvavici, Croatia -- The 1930s -- 1941-42 -- The crew -- Overseas at last -- Spinazzola, Italy -- First combat -- Finally ... mission countdown -- It's not all combat ... -- Mission after mission after ... -- 18 November 1944 -- What hath God wrought -- "Vor you, der var iss ofer" -- Interrogation and isolation -- 8 December 1944-1 May 1945 -- 30 April-20 June 1945 -- Home at last -- Olathe, Kansas -- The crew -- Short focused -- The real work -- Pula Croatia
N2  - On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American co-pilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. Over Pula in what is now Croatia, they were once more hit by German fire. Lamar all but surrendered to death before fortuitously bailing out and being captured. in 2006 Lamar received an email from Croatian archaeologist Luka Bekic who had discovered the wreckage of Bottoms Up
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