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Average Reviewer Rating: 3.9 out of 4
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Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

  by Steve Snyder

Genre: Non-Fiction
| Release Date: August 15, 2014
| 85,000 words

Language: English

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Original Quick Blurb for Shot Down

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SHOT DOWN recounts the dramatic experiences of each member of a ten man B-17 bomber crew after their plane, piloted by the author's father, was knocked out of the sky by German fighters over the French/Belgian Border on February 8, 1944.

Blurb added on January 16, 2023, at 11:29 am by ShotDown.

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Shot Down was self-published.

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Shot Down was added to OnlineBookClub.org by Heidi M Simone on September 20, 2015, at 3:50 pm.

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