It's a story of two men's separate journeys confronting trauma and loss. What will happen to his wife and his two young children? John must continue uncovering Gene's story of survival as he himself confronts the greatest trial of his life.
His parachute shredded by enemy fire, Gene awaited the inevitable. The mangled wreckage plunged four miles toward German soil. But both men persevere, bonded by their close and growing friendship.Īs the interviews go on, John faces an ordeal of his own. In November 1943, in the skies over Nazi Germany, a wounded American tail gunner, Gene Moran, lay in the severed tail of his Flying Fortress bomber. But John has no idea what wounds he's reopening. Gene, nearing his ninetieth birthday, recounts incredible tales. So begins a series of "Thursdays with Gene" interviews. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's amazing fall, he's desperate to learn more. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. Tailspinwritten by John Armbruster with interviews of Gene Moran, WWII Vet PaperbackNonfiction - Historical - WWII - Personal Narrative422 pagesISBN 9781645383147 ABOUT THE BOOKA rookie social studies teacher overhears a conversation about a World War II tail gunner who survived a four-mile fall from the sky. 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. Tailspin unveils the twin stories of two remarkable, resilient men facing the biggest trials of their lives. World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. AFTERNOON BOOK CLUB 1:30 pm on the third Tuesday at the Viola Library Currently reading Tailspin by John Armbruster.
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