Echoes from an Eagle

by Ken Elder Bledsoe and Gary Raham

On July 14, 1942, Vernon Elder's B-17 Flying Fortress went down near Horn Island off the coast of Australia. Sixty-eight years later, his son, Ken Bledsoe, traveled 10,000 miles in search of the bomber and stories about the father he never really knew.Vernon Elder was only 21 years old when he left his small town in Colorado to join the Army Air Corps in 1939. Like so many young men of his generation, he found his world turned upside down with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692565124
• ISBN13: 9780692565124
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Colcon Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.