Lightning Sky , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 539min

October 6, 1944. Twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant David ´´Mac´´ Warren MacArthur was on a strafing mission over Greece when a round of 88-mm German anti-aircraft flak turned his P-38 Lightning into a comet of fire and smoke. Dave parachuted to safety as the Lightning lived up to her name and struck the Adriatic Sea like a bolt of flames. In minutes, he was plucked from the water - only to find himself on the wrong end of a German rifle pointing straight at his head. Dave´s father, Lieutenant Colonel Vaughn MacArthur, was a chaplain with the 8th Armored Division of Patton´s Third Army when he learned of his son´s capture. He made it his personal mission to find him. For the duration of the war, as Dave was shuttled from camp to camp - including Dachau - his father never stopped searching. Then in May 1945, Vaughn´s last hope was Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany. Through the barbed wire fence, he cried out his son´s name. Incredibly, out of tens of thousands of POWs, one of them, squinting into the sunlight, turned and smiled. Father and son spent the next two weeks together celebrating, a forever cherished memory. Over the next 25 years, Dave would go on to honor his father in rescue missions of his own, becoming a highly decorated and genuine American war hero. 1. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/high/002529/bk_high_002529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.... Mehr