It will also show an elderly man finally coming to terms with the cruelties of a war that would haunt his entire life. It's a story of two men's separate journeys confronting trauma and loss. Tailspin chronicles Gene's unbelievable World War II survival saga. What will happen to his wife and his two young children? John must continue uncovering Gene's story of survival as he himself confronts the greatest trial of his life. But both men persevere, bonded by their close and growing friendship.Īs the interviews go on, John faces an ordeal of his own. But John has no idea what wounds he's reopening.

Gene, nearing his ninetieth birthday, recounts incredible tales. AFTERNOON BOOK CLUB 1:30 pm on the third Tuesday at the Viola Library Currently reading Tailspin by John Armbruster. So begins a series of 'Thursdays with Gene' interviews. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's amazing fall, he's desperate to learn more. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. Read 'Tailspin' by John Armbruster available from Rakuten Kobo. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years.

World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute.

Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. Lees Tailspin door John Armbruster verkrijgbaar bij Rakuten Kobo. World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived.

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