American airman in the Belgian Resistance : Gerald E. Sorensen and the Transatlantic Alliance / Jerome W. Sheridan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheridan, Jerome W., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sorensen, Gerald E., 1919-1944.

Sorensen, Gerald E.

United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Squadron, 339th--Biography.

United States.

United States. Army Air Forces--Aerial gunners--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations.

Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Belgium.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1687-6