Lightning Down french she faced discrimination—because she was

she faced discrimination—because she was a woman

Thomas Keneally

A for Anna

her teenage years in Italy hiding from the Nazis

Eastern Thrace

Lightning Down french she faced discrimination—because she wasBy Tom Clavin An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty two years old, a