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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.
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. It is the story of some facts long lost to history and other facts never before published, gleaned from the post-war trial of his captors, the transcript of which is preserved at the National Archives.
It is the story of a young Army Air Force officer who did what his country asked of him. It is a story of courage, sacrifice, injustice, and memory.
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. A Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and in the American College of Tax Counsel, he was active in the North Carolina Bar Association and authored more than 100 journal articles, newsletter articles, and continuing education manuscripts, making presentations to lawyers, IRS Agents, and tax professionals, from Miami to Atlanta, Richmond, and New York, and from Chicago to Lubbock, Denver, and San Francisco, and in many venues in North Carlina, South Carolina, and Virginia. He now raises cattle and timber on his farm near Smithfield.
