Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.

On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almos…

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