Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free

Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

Alexander Jefferson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2017
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
9780823274383 (ISBN)

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This book is a rare and important gift. One of the few memoirs of combat in World War II by a distinguished African-American flier, it is also perhaps the only account of the African-American experience in a German prison camp.

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free 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.
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is perhaps the only account of the African American experience in a German prison camp.

Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, (USAF, Ret.) (1921-2022) had degrees from Clark College and Wayne State University. He won numerous citations and was active in Veterans' and Tuskegee Airmen organizations. He served in Michigan public schools for thirty years as a teacher and administrator, and lived outside Detroit in Southfield. He was an educator and a hero. Lewis H. Carlson is co-author of Life behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Photographs of Prisoner of War Angelo M. Spinelli (Fordham).

Dedication Foreword by Lewis H. Carlson Alexander Jefferson Timeline Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Detroit: The Formative Years Chapter 2. Clark College Chapter 3. The Making of a Tuskegee Airman Chapter 4. Combat Chapter 5. Captured! Chapter 6. Stalag Luft III Chapter 7. Stalag VIIA and Liberation Chapter 8. Civilian! Postscript Appendix The Legacy Lives On! Selected Sources Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	World War II: the Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
Co-Autor	Lewis H. Carlson
Zusatzinfo	92 color illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780823274383 / 9780823274383
Zustand	Neuware