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The Secret Rescue
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines | Cate Lineberry
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A #1 Wall Street Journal e-book bestseller! "THE SECRET RESCUE combines all of the elements that draw us to WWII stories: the daring of The Guns of Navarone, the suspense of The Great Escape, and the bravery reminiscent of Ill Met by Moonlight. It's the inclusion of so many women, though, that makes this story unique.'' -- Daily Beast This mesmerizing account of the courage and bravery of ordinary women and men reveals for the first time an astonishing true story of heroic struggle and endurance. When twenty-six Army Air Force flight nurses and medics boarded a military transport plane in November 1943 on a mission to evacuate wounded and sick troops, they didn't anticipate a crash landing in Nazi territory. Emerging from their battered aircraft, the Americans found themselves in Albania, a country rife with chaos and danger. With hunger and sickness as their constant companions, they hid at night with courageous villagers who shared what little food they had, risking death at Nazi hands by doing so. For months, they prayed desperately to be rescued while doing everything they could to survive.
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Nurses and medics of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron take off from Sicily, heading towards the boot of Italy in a C-53D Skytrooper when they veer off course due to bad weather conditions and crash-land in the middle of Nazi-occupied Albania. This is the true story of the 52 days they spent surviving the harsh Albanian winter in the mountains, evading capture by the Germans and finally being rescued by the Allies.

starlight97 👆🏻 Pictured here are some of the flight nurses showing off oversized men‘s shoes given to them by the British in Albania when their own fell apart. 5y
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