A TRUE STORY OF COURAGE, CAPTURE, AND SURVIVAL
FACING FEARFUL ODDS
A short emotional narrative introducing Hardy Narron and the events of March 20, 1945.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Conspicuous courage. Deadly anti-aircraft weaponry.Brutal Nazi interrogations. Atrocities by “beasts in human form.” Dark details from post-war trial transcripts.
This brief book of the life of Hardy D. Narron, a North Carolina farm boy who left college to answer the call of his country in World War II, explores his life in the 488th Bombardment Squadron at Alesan Air Field, Corsica, as 1944 turned to 1945. After bailing out of a disabled B-25, his death at the hands of the Balzano Gestapo and SS while a prisoner-of-war was an extraordinary extension of Hitler’s Commando Order by a renegade Gestapo officer in charge of that station.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James W. Narron is a retired tax, estate, and trust lawyer who practiced for 50 years in Smithfield, North Carolina, with Narron Wenzel, P.A., and its predecessor firm, Narron, O’Hale & Whittington, P.A., with offices in Benson, Raleigh, and Smithfield. A veteran of the United States Navy, he was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has law degrees from Wake Forest University Law School and New York University Law School.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
A powerful and humbling story of courage, brotherhood, and survival. A must-read for every American.”
- Vietnam Veterans of America
A powerful and humbling story of courage, brotherhood, and survival. A must-read for every American.”
- Vietnam Veterans of America
A powerful and humbling story of courage, brotherhood, and survival. A must-read for every American.”
