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Foye and the Filipinos : Bailout, Escape, and Rescue of a Navy Fighter Pilot in World War Two Luzon

Author :  Richard P. Foye (Eds) Philip & Elizabeth Devlin

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Country
Philippines
Publisher
Richard P. Foye, Philippines
ISBN 9781732469006
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2018
Bib. Info xii, 238p.
Product Weight 650 gms.
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Book includes 50 pages using color photographs and maps. During WWII, Ensign William Foye, U.S.N.R., F6F Hellcat Pilot, was a member of Air Group Twenty, assigned to the USS Enterprise, CV6. After twenty-two missions, Foye had to bail out of his plane over Los Banos, Laguna, in the Philippines. The people of southern Luzon, in particular the members of President Quezon’s Own Guerrillas, rescued Foye. This book tells the story of AG-20, two downed pilots, the PQOG, the people of Luzon, and the love story between Bill and his Navy nurse Betty

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