Beyond The Call: The True Story of One World War Ⅱ Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

摘要

Beyond the Call is a son's discovery of his father's role in rescuing Allied prisoners of war trapped in Eastern Europe prior to the end of the war in Europe. Lee Trimble knew that his father, Capt. Robert Trimble, served in World War II, and that he flew thirty-five missions as a B-17 pilot with the 493rd Bomb Group of the United States Eighth Air Force. It was during a 2006 conversation at a nursing home that his father let it slip that his role in the war did not end upon completing the magical thirty-fifth combat mission on 30 December 1944. Capt. Trimble embarked on a new covert mission to recover Allied prisoners of war located behind Russian lines in Eastern Europe.