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  2. Alan Magee - Wikipedia

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    Air Medal. Purple Heart. Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was a United States airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. [1] He was featured in the 1981 Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II.

  3. Infestation: Survivor Stories - Wikipedia

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    WW: December 17, 2012. Genre (s) Survival horror. Mode (s) Multiplayer. Infestation: Survivor Stories (formerly known as The War Z) was an open world zombie video game developed by Hammerpoint Interactive and published by OP Productions. [1][2] Infestation: Survivor Stories features both first-person and third-person shooting perspectives.

  4. Unbroken (book) - Wikipedia

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    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is a biography of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) in three Japanese POW ...

  5. Leon Crane - Wikipedia

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    Surviving 84 days in the Alaskan wilderness without many supplies or outside help. Leon Crane (August 5, 1919 – March 26, 2002), a native of Philadelphia, [1] was an American Army Air Corps lieutenant who was stationed at Ladd Field [a] in Alaska during World War II. During a routine test flight on December 21, 1943, the B-24 Liberator Crane ...

  6. Lost in Shangri-La - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 9780061988349. Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II is a 2011 non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in Netherlands New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the ...

  7. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    A cartoon short where animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought war to the point of extinction Story 1941 War "Magic City" Nelson S. Bond: Story 1941 War "Nightfall" Isaac Asimov: Play 1942 War (also ice age and flood) The Skin of Our Teeth: Thornton Wilder: Novel 1943 War Gather, Darkness: Fritz Leiber [8] Story 1944 Eco

  8. List of nuclear holocaust fiction - Wikipedia

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    Harlan Ellison (short story); L.Q. Jones, Alvy Moore and Wayne Cruseturner (screenplay) Barefoot Gen. 1976. Tengo Yamada (screenplay), Keiji Nakazawa (manga) The story of Gen Nakaoka and his family, who lived in Hiroshima at the time it was atom-bombed, and their struggles and trials amidst the nuclear holocaust. Damnation Alley.

  9. Jan Baalsrud - Wikipedia

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    Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) St Olav's Medal with Oak Branch. Other work. Chairman of the Norwegian Disabled Veterans Union (1957 — 1964) Jan Sigurd Baalsrud, MBE (13 December 1917 – 30 December 1988) was a commando in the Norwegian resistance trained by the British during World War II.