Midnight Flight To Nuremberg
Air World, An Imprint Of Pen & Sword Books (2021)
By Marcus A. Nannini
ISBN 9781526792730
Hardcover - 224 pages - $32.95
Nonfiction - Biography
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Synopsis: This is the story of an American C-47 ‘Dakota’ pilot who earned three Air Med- als, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. Around midnight, in early April 1945, he was sent on a secret mission to fly to a point near Nuremberg, which was behind enemy lines at the time. It was necessary for him to locate an empty meadow in the dark, land, load a party of US soldiers and their cap- tives, and then take-off again. He pulled it off. Among those prisoners was Franz von Pap- pen, the man who had persuaded President Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Von Papen had been seized at his own home by First Lieutenant Thomas McKinley and his men from the US 194th Glider Infantry Regiment.
* Gold Winner: Overall Best Non-Fiction
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