Writing on whatever was handy, Liberator (B24) navigator Second Lieutenant Eugene Halmos recorded his experiences from the time German anti-aircraft shot him down in June 1944 to his liberation almost a year later. With his engineer's eye for detail, Halmos takes the reader into the German Luftwaffe stalags in unforgettable detail. The German guards, some of whom even become friends with the Americans, his fellow British prisoners, Russian captives, all the personalities caught up in the air war for Europe, are here represented. Young Lieutenant Halmos was both one of thousands and an individual American. With unusual flair and insight, Halmos describes his hopes of survival, and his frustrations with the slow pace of the liberating Allied armies, whose progress he follows on illegal radios and in legal German newspapers.Halmos takes us back to a time of mass warfare when survival and liberation were the dominant themes of American prisoners. Including many rare photographs, this is an unforgettable story of one American who speaks for many who did not live to tell their stories.