Lightning sky: a U.S. fighter pilot captured during WWII and his father's quest to find him

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Foreword by Marcus Brotheron -- A note to readers -- Part 1 / 1. One-man war -- 2. Keep 'em flying! -- 3. Hatbox Field -- 4. The north pole -- 5. On wings of eagles -- 6. The crack-up -- 7. Blitzkrieg -- 8. Thundering herd -- Part II / 9. The fork-tailed devil -- 10. Strafing Salonika -- 11. "For you, the war is over" -- 12. No use playing possum -- 13. Smokey Joe -- 14. Sabotage -- 15. "Heil Joe Stalin!" -- 16. Red Tails -- 17. The flying toolshed -- 18. "Lieutenant David W. MacArthur, 0-714466" -- 19. The great escape -- 20. The continent -- 21. Death march -- 22. Stalag VII-A -- 23. The search -- 24. Stars and stripes -- Part III / 25. Meatloaf and apple pie -- 26. Home -- 27. Bugout -- Afterword: Ace for the enemy -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments.;A U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determined to rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II. On October 6, 1944, twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant David "Mac" Warren MacArthur was on a strafing mission over Greece when his P-38 Lightning was struck over the Adriatic Sea. Captured by the Germans, he spent the duration of the war shuttled from camp to camp. Meanwhile, his father, Lieutenant Colonel Vaughn MacArthur, a chaplain with the 8th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army, never stopped searching for his son. In May, 1945 he finally found him at Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany--Adapted from jacket flap.