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American airman in the Belgian Resistance

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In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E. Sorensen was shot down over Nazi occupied Belgium. The Belgian Resistance recovered Sorensen and sheltered him in the home of the Abeels family. Friendship between Sorensen and the Abeels blossomed and they came to consider each other as family. The Abeels were active in the Resistance and Sorensen ultimately volunteered to join his Belgian brother Roger Abeels in the Secret Army. Just moments before the British Army arrived to liberate the village of Marcq-lez-Enghien, Sorensen and Abeels were killed in combat with the Nazis, fighting side-by-side. Th

Title American airman in the Belgian Resistance : Gerald E. Sorensen and the Transatlantic Alliance / Jerome W. Sheridan.
Publisher Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Creation Date 2014
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Family, Faith and Fatherland
2. Aviation Cadet
3. A Wartime Romance
4. Jerry's Air War
5. The Underground
6. King, Law and Liberty
7. The Summer of 1944
8. Brothers in Arms
9. Farewell
10 The Legacy
Epilogue
Appendix: AOMDA Belgium
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Extent 1 online resource (259 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997012410299105171
MARC RECORDS
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