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Red Tail captured, Red Tail free : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW / Alexander Jefferson, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF, Ret. ; with Lewis H. Carlson.
- Title
- Red Tail captured, Red Tail free : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW / Alexander Jefferson, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF, Ret. ; with Lewis H. Carlson.
- Author
- Jefferson, Alexander, 1921-
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Carlson, Lewis H.
- Description
- xxv, 170 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "[This book] is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply personal story, Jefferson writes as a genuine American hero about what it meant to be an African American pilot in enemy hands, fighting to protect the promise of freedom. The book features the sketches, drawings, and other illustrations Jefferson created during his nine months as a POW, and Lewis Carlson's authoritative background to the man, his unit, and the fight Alexander Jefferson fought so well. This revised edition covers the story of Jefferson's continuing outreach and education work, as he brings the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to communities and schools across the country, and the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Airmen in 2007. [This book] is perhaps the only account of the African American experience in a German prison camp."--Amazon.com.
- Series Statement
- World War II: the global, human, and ethical dimension
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension
- Subjects
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- Récits personnels
- Personal narratives > American
- Biography
- Personal Narrative
- 1939-1945
- World War > (1939-1945)
- African American fighter pilots > Biography
- Fighter pilots > United States > Biography
- Prisoners of war > Germany > Biography
- Prisoners of war > United States > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
- United States > Army Air Forces > Fighter Group, 332nd
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American
- World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
- Jefferson, Alexander, 1921-
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Biography
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – American
- Récits personnels.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Detroit: the formative years -- Clark College -- The making of a Tuskegee Airman -- Combat -- Captured! -- Stalag Luft III -- Stalag VIIA and liberation -- Civilian! -- Post script -- Appendix: Alexander Jefferson's organizational affiliations ; Alexander Jefferson's military awards.
- ISBN
- 9780823274383
- 0823274381
- LCCN
- ^^2017003966
- OCLC
- 971020926
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library