Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
(OverDrive Listen)

Kevin Maurer. (2022). Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Kevin Maurer. 2022. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History. Macmillan Audio.

Kevin Maurer, Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History. Macmillan Audio, 2022.

Kevin Maurer. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2022.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781250839510
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781250839510
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

edition

Unabridged

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Kevin Maurer

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Damn Lucky

dateAdded

2022-06-30T22:22:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=242&titleID=6241629
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: LION: Libraries Online (CT)
     • id: 1354

sortTitle

Damn Lucky One Mans Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

crossRefId

6241629

subtitle

One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

id

F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC

starRating

3.8

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 08:20:55
   • fileName: DamnLucky_9781250839510_6241629
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 240447108
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781250839510
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 4/19/2022
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f899517e-83e8-4586-800d-c90a960cb2bc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: books on tape
2. • value: 8th air force
3. • value: European Theater
4. • value: audiobooks
5. • value: Mighty Eighth
6. • value: audio books
7. • value: Allies
8. • value: b-17
9. • value: Luftwaffe
10. • value: flying fortress
11. • value: Berlin
12. • value: Bremen
13. • value: world war ii history
14. • value: wwii memoir
15. • value: military heroes
16. • value: american pilots
17. • value: flak
18. • value: Eto
19. • value: 100th bomber group
20. • value: bomber pilots
21. • value: john luckadoo
22. • value: purple heart corner
23. • value: thorpe abbotts
24. • value: village of diss
25. • value: bloody hundredth

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Maurer, Kevin
   • bioText: KEVIN MAURER is an award-winning journalist and three-time New York Times bestselling co-author of No Easy Day, No Hero and American Radical among others. For the last eleven years, Maurer has also worked as a freelance writer covering war, politics and general interest stories. His writing has been published in GQ, Men's Journal, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, and numerous other publications.
   • name: Kevin Maurer
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Graham, Holter
   • name: Holter Graham
3. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Luckadoo, John
   • name: John Luckadoo

publishDate

2022-04-19T00:00:00Z

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Damn Lucky

fullDescription

From Kevin Maurer—the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day—comes the true story of a World War II bomber pilot who survived twenty-five missions in Damn Lucky, "an epic, thrillingly written, utterly immersive account of a very lucky, incredible survivor of the war in the skies to defeat Hitler" (New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw).

"We were young citizen-soldiers, terribly naive and gullible about what we would be confronted with in the air war over Europe and the profound effect it would have upon every fiber of our being for the rest of our lives. We were all afraid, but it was beyond our power to quit. We volunteered for the service and, once trained and overseas, felt we had no choice but to fulfill the mission assigned. My hope is that this book honors the men with whom I served by telling the truth about what it took to climb into the cold blue and fight for our lives over and over again."
—John "Lucky" Luckadoo, Major, USAF (Ret.) 100th Bomb Group (H)

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was a world away from John Luckadoo's hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. But when the Japanese attacked the American naval base on December 7, 1941, he didn't hesitate to join the military. Trained as a pilot with the United States Air Force, Second Lieutenant Luckadoo was assigned to the 100th Bomb Group stationed in Thorpe Abbotts, England. Between June and October 1943, he flew B-17 Flying Fortresses over France and Germany on bombing runs devised to destroy the Nazi war machine.
With a shrapnel torn Bible in his flight jacket pocket and his girlfriend's silk stocking around his neck like a scarf as talismans, Luckadoo piloted through Luftwaffe machine-gun fire and antiaircraft flak while enduring subzero temperatures to complete twenty-five missions and his combat service. The average bomber crew rarely survived after eight to twelve missions. Knowing far too many airmen who wouldn't be returning home, Luckadoo closed off his emotions and focused on his tasks to finish his tour of duty one moment at a time, realizing his success was more about being lucky than being skilled.
Drawn from Luckadoo's firsthand accounts, acclaimed war correspondent Kevin Maurer shares his extraordinary tale from war to peacetime, uncovering astonishing feats of bravery during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history, and presenting an incredible portrait of a young man's coming-of-age during the world's most devastating war.
This program includes a bonus conversation between John "Lucky" Luckadoo and the author.

popularity

1029

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BPQEAAA20/products/f899517e-83e8-4586-800d-c90a960cb2bc/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=XT1fADHmp90
  • type: text/HTML

id

f899517e-83e8-4586-800d-c90a960cb2bc

starRating

3.9

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1493-1/{F899517E-83E8-4586-800D-C90A960CB2BC}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Biography & Autobiography
2. • value: History
3. • value: Military
4. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

04/19/2022

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

From Kevin Maurer—the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day—comes the true story of a World War II bomber pilot who survived twenty-five missions in Damn Lucky, "an epic, thrillingly written, utterly immersive account of a very lucky, incredible survivor of the war in the skies to defeat Hitler" (New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw).

"We were young citizen-soldiers, terribly naive and gullible about what we would be confronted with in the air war over Europe and the profound effect it would have upon every fiber of our being for the rest of our lives. We were all afraid, but it was beyond our power to quit. We volunteered for the service and, once trained and overseas, felt we had no choice but to fulfill the mission assigned. My hope is that this book honors the men with whom I served by telling the truth about what it took to climb into the cold blue and fight for our lives over...

sortTitle

Damn Lucky One Mans Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

crossRefId

6241629

classifications

subtitle

One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

publisher

Macmillan Audio

tableOfContents

Chapter 1: Mission #22
Chapter 2: Answering the Call
Chapter 3: Solo
Chapter 4: "You're all going to be killed and you might as well accept it."
Chapter 5: Station 139
Chapter 6: The Professionals
Chapter 7: Tail Gunner
Chapter 8: Five Miles Above
Chapter 9: A Good Type American
Chapter 10: Mission 25
Chapter 11: King Bee
Chapter 12: 12 O'Clock High
Chapter 13: Bombs Away
Chapter 14: Three and a Half Engines and a Prayer
Chapter 15: Black Week
Chapter 16: Friendly Invasion
Chapter 17: Last Post
Chapter 18: Big B
Chapter 19: Mission #25
Chapter 20: Home
Chapter 21: Last Flight
Afterword
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments

bisacCodes

1. • code: BIO008000
   • description: Biography & Autobiography / Military
2. • code: HIS027140
   • description: History / Military / Aviation & Space
3. • code: HIS027370
   • description: History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater