Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines

On November 8, 1943, U.S. Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain in Catania, Sicily, into a C-53 transport plane. But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari, Italy, where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther from the front lines. A violent storm and pursuit by German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of Albania, leaving the nurses, their team of medics, and the flight crew stranded in Nazi-occupied territory. What followed was a

Author: Agnes Jensen Mangerich
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/14/2006
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780813191577

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