Photographer, Paratrooper, POW
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491_9781941237038
Photographer, Paratrooper, POW: A Wyoming Cowboy in Hitler's Germany tells the story of three brothers who leave their Wyoming home to fight in World War II. Carroll started with extensive, detailed family histories assembled by Merle Harris and other genealogists, and added the voluminous collection of military records, memorabilia, photographs, war-time correspondence, and personal notes saved by Harold Carroll, who, as the title suggests, was one of America's first paratroopers, a combat photographer, and a prisoner of war who escaped repeatedly from the Nazis.The author supplements these extensive primary-source materials with meticulous research of other published and unpublished works, all fully documented and cited for the benefit of further research.Carroll begins by reciting the story of the discovery, in 2004, of a treasure-trove of photographs Harold took and submitted for development, in England, just before D-Day. Before he had the chance to collect the prints, he parachuted into Normandy as part of the preliminary force, hours before the "official" start of the Allied invasion of Nazi Europe now well-known as "D-Day, H-Hour."Harold was captured and taken prisoner by the Nazis and spent the remainder of the war repeatedly escaping from their POW camps, keeping notes of the adventures along the way, as he could - sometimes only in scratches upon his Zippo lighter. After the war, Harold put those notes together with accurate maps - unavailable while on the run from the Nazis! - to trace his various paths, with results differing from other, previously-published accounts. (Harold was certain that his version, first published here, was the more accurate version.) Yes, we get a picture of the trusty Zippo.Carroll takes the reader back to the brothers' ancestral home in Ireland, painting a vivid chronical of classic American pioneers. The appendices document events at least as far back as 1798 but the main body of the
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