Kensington, Sachbücher, Lightning Sky: A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured During WWII and His Father/'s Quest to Find Him (En...

A U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determined to rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II. October 6, 1944. Twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant David &ldquo Mac&rdquo Warren MacArthur was on a strafing mission over Greece when a round of 88-mm German anti-aircraft flak turned his P-38 Lightning into a comet of fire and smoke. Dave parachuted to safety as the Lightning lived up to her name and struck the Adriatic Sea like a bolt of flames. In minutes, he was plucked from the water&mdash only to find himself on the wrong end of a German rifle pointing straight at his head. Dave&rsquo s father, Lieutenant Colonel Vaughn MacArthur, was a chaplain with the 8th Armored Division of Patton&rsquo s Third Army when he learned of his son&rsquo s capture. He made it his personal mission to find him. For the duration of the war, as Dave was shuttled from camp to camp&mdash including Dachau&mdash his father never stopped searching. Then in May 1945, Vaughn&rsquo s last hope was Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany. Through the barbed wire fence, he cried out his son&rsquo s name. Incredibly, out of tens of thousands of POWs, one of them, squinting into the sunlight, turned and smiled. Father and son spent the next two weeks together celebrating, a forever cherished memory. Over the next twenty-five years, Dave would go on to honor his father on rescue missions of his own, becoming a highly decorated and genuine American war hero. In both Korea and Vietnam, Dave would carry with him the legacy of a great man who gave everything to save his son. An inspiring, harrowing, and unforgettable chronicle of love of family and love of country, Lightning Sky is a timeless testament to extraordinary lives in extraordinary times.