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The Last Full Measure: An American Family and How the United States Brought Home the Dead of World War II
By Kim Clarke
Hardcover
$27.95
By Kim Clarke
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The Last Full Measure tells the forgotten story of the sacred mission to return America’s fallen from foreign battlefields.
In the fall of 1944, German flak shredded an American bomber in the skies over Austria. Four crew parachuted from the burning aircraft, but six spiraled five miles to their deaths. Among the dead was tail gunner Delbert Trueman. It had been his first mission. His remains would not return home for more than four years.
In the years following World War II, Trueman’s journe...
In the fall of 1944, German flak shredded an American bomber in the skies over Austria. Four crew parachuted from the burning aircraft, but six spiraled five miles to their deaths. Among the dead was tail gunner Delbert Trueman. It had been his first mission. His remains would not return home for more than four years.
In the years following World War II, Trueman’s journe...