Bailout Over Normandy: A Flyboy's Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France
By: Paperback
288 Pages
2017
A daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, the author of this remarkable memoir bailed out of his burning Mustang on D-Day+2 and was launched on a thrilling adventure on the ground in Occupied France.
After months living and fighting with the French Resistance, Ted was captured by the Wehrmacht, interrogated as a spy, and interned in a POW camp – and made a daring escape just before his deportation to Germany. Nothing diminished this pilot’s talent for spotting the ironic humor in even the most aggravating or dangerous situations, nor his penchant for extracting his own improvised and sometimes hilarious version of justice.
A suspenseful WWII page-turner and an outrageously witty tale of daring and friendship, this book brings to vivid life the daily bravery, mischief, and intrigues of fighter pilots, Resistance fighters, and other Allies in the air and on the ground.
The author recorded his swashbuckling adventures at age 24, after his discharge and return to the States. Afterward he went into business and never again put pen to paper. But his immediate reminiscence of his wartime experience—recently found—reveal a literary talent that is rare.
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Prologue
Chapter 1 An Even One-Hundred
Chapter 2 “We are the Maquis”
Chapter 3 Drafted
Chapter 4 A Homing Pigeon Named Tayo
Chapter 5 Beaucoup, Beaucoup Boches
Chapter 6 Squeeze-Play
Chapter 7 “You are a Spy!”
Chapter 8 A Model Convict
Chapter 9 Free Agent
Chapter 10 A Dangerous Guest
Chapter 11 Yanks!
Chapter 12 A Thousand Memories
Acknowledgments
