Rhapsody in Junk: a Daughter's Return to Germany to Finish Her Father's Story

Rhapsody in Junk: a Daughter's Return to Germany to Finish Her Father's Story
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Publisher : Author House
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : 9781477280324
ISBN-13 : 1477280324
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Download or read book Rhapsody in Junk: a Daughter's Return to Germany to Finish Her Father's Story written by Marilyn Jeffers Walton and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of three years of research in four countries. By meticulously combing the archive records in England, Germany, Poland and the United States, Marilyn Jeffers Walton has reconstructed the final mission of her father and his crew and located the German cemetery where one crewmate, killed the day the plane was shot down, was buried. She searched for and found the remaining men of the crew of "Rhapsody in Junk" and reunited them after sixty years. Interviews with the crew and fellow prisoners of war contributed puzzle pieces, put together bit by bit, that enabled her to find where they were captured and interrogated. By searching old records, letters, diaries and mission records, she was finally able to return to Germany and find the crash site of her father's B-24 where pieces of the plane still remained. To her astonishment, she met the woman who watched her father bail out and saw the very field where he landed. During her return to Germany, she connected emotionally with the people of the peaceful farm community of Wagersrott where her father was taken prisoner over six decades before. In her quest to reconstruct the mission and her father's prisoner of war experiences, Walton presents not only his story but the stories of the British and German people who both suffered greatly, all caught up in the dictates of a mad man. Revealed within the pages is a first-hand account of the bombing of Dresden from a German couple who survived it. Walton's odyssey through Europe allowed her to discover the rich fabric of the people who endured and survived the war and to weave their stories into a multi-faceted mosaic that reflects the personal experiences of World War II.


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