Amazon 1 Best Seller and winner of 25 national book awards - SHOT DOWN: The true story of pilot. Snyder gets his crew out of his B-17 when bailing out over Nazi occupied Europe. Steve Snyder Author of Shot Down, Seal Beach, California. You are there, almost holding your breath as Lt. Shot Down moves history out of the footnotes into reality, keeping the stories of real people alive as they experience being shot down. World War II fades in importance as each year goes by. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Centered around the 306th Bomb Group in Thurleigh, England, it is informative, insightful and captivating.įor most, 70 years is a long time ago. Read reviews and buy Shot Down - by Steve Snyder (Paperback) at Target. Shot Down was created from the vast number of letters and journals of Howard Snyder diaries of men and women on the ground who rescued, sheltered and hid the crew and interviews conducted by historians. creation and dedication of the monument to the Susan Ruth and its crew located in Macquenoise, Belgium in 1989.behind-the-scenes stories of the Belgium civilians who risked all to save American flyers who were in the air one moment, spiraling down in flames the next.

He helped get a couple of his nine crewmen out, saw others get out, then he bailed.

German atrocities toward captured crew and civilians Howard Snyder piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress long-range bomber that was shot down over the Belgium/France border in February 1944 on a mission to hit Frankfurt, Germany.

The research into this segment of WWII is historically rich. Shot Down is not confined to the B-17 Susan Ruth crashing or the Belgians hiding his father. But Steve Snyder is a very articulate writer and a thorough researcher.

underground and resistance and what Lt. Shot Down is a son’s tribute to his dad’s wartime experience.

training before heading to foreign soil.

separation for young families as men went off to war.

Author Steve Snyder's story of his father, Lieutenant Howard Snyder, and the Susan Ruth crew, provides in-depth details about many aspects of World War II few understand or know about including the: For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail.

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