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Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

Genre: Non-Fiction

| Release Date: August 15, 2014

| 85,000 words

Language: English

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Original Quick Blurb for Shot Down

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.

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