The Lost Airmen of Buchenwald
Subject: Edward Keith Phelps
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This is my father's account of being forced to abandon his aircraft in France, attempting to get home via Spain, being arrested by the Gestapo, and being held in Fresnes, Buchenwalde, Stalag Luft III and Stalag III as a prisoner-of-war.
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