Tailspin - John Armbruster
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Narrator: Brandon Pollock
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, Military, Adults
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Release date: November 1, 2022 Duration: 12:00:40, World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. 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. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. His nine children knew little of their dads war story. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Genes amazing fall, hes desperate to learn more. Finally, Gene agrees., So begins a series of Thursdays with Gene interviews. Gene, nearing his ninetieth birthday, recounts incredible tales. But John has no idea what wounds hes reopening. Genes nightmares and grief return. But both men persevere, bonded by their close and growing friendship., As the interviews go on, John faces an ordeal of his own. His wife is fighting brain cancer. What will happen to his wife and h
