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SUMMARY:Under a War-Torn Sky with L. M. Elliott
LOCATION:Large Meeting Room\, Lewes Public Library
URL:https://shoplocaldelmarva.com/events/under-a-war-torn-sky-with-l-m-elli
 ott-2026-09-30/
DESCRIPTION:In-Person or Online\nIn celebration of the 25th anniversary of 
 her best-selling\, award-winning Under a War-Torn Sky\, author L. M. Ellio
 tt will talk about the American airmen of World War II and the resistance 
 workers and compassionate citizens who dared help them.  \nBefore D-day—
 before American soldiers could rush Normandy and begin the bloody trek to 
 liberate Europe of Hitler—there were flyboys. Bomber crews who flew raid
 s over Nazi-occupied Belgium\, Netherlands\, and France then into Germany
 ’s Third Reich\, shot at for hundreds of miles by anti-aircraft cannon o
 n the ground and Luftwaffe fighters in the sky. Their mission: to drop bom
 bs on munition plants\, tank and plane factories to weaken Hitler’s war 
 machine before other American boys had to storm those fortressed beaches.\
 nAll were volunteers. Typically under the age of 21. And most of them neve
 r made it back to their base in England. Between 1943 and 1945\, a stagger
 ing 51\,000 of our aircrews over Europe went missing. Of the 35 original a
 ircrews of the 100th Bomb Group\, 32 were killed or lost. Most flyers who 
 managed to bail out of their burning planes were caught and interned in Hi
 tler’s stalags. It is less clear how many of them tried to evade Nazi pa
 trols and collaborators and make their way to neutral Switzerland or Spain
 . \nThose who did escape were the lucky and rare. About 4\,000 British and
  American servicemen survived--solely because of French\, Dutch\, and Belg
 ian civilians. “Ordinary” people  who stood up to brutalit…\n\nhttps
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