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A Boy From Crackers Neck
Paperback
Biographies GeneralSouthWorld War II
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 25 2023
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.62 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Thirty combat missions over Nazi occupied Europe. Every man on his B-17 crew came home alive.
Before Captain Jimmie Galloway became a decorated B-17 pilot, he was just a boy from Crackers Neck, a little Appalachian community tucked into the coalfields of Southwest Virginia.
He grew up in an Appalachia shaped by hard work, family, farming, coal mines and the Great Depression. It was a place where folks didn't have much, but they learned early how to make do, take care of their neighbors and keep going when times got hard.
Those lessons would follow Jimmie Galloway all the way to war.
During World War II, he climbed into the cockpit of a B-17 Flying Fortress and flew mission after mission over Nazi occupied Europe. Thirty combat missions where the difference between coming home and not coming home could be measured in seconds.
His entire crew survived.
But A Boy From Crackers Neck isn't simply a war story.
It's the story of the Appalachian people and places that helped shape a young man before he ever put on a uniform. It's about growing up in the Virginia coalfields, life on the family farm, the hardships of the Depression, the bonds of family, and a generation of ordinary Americans who found themselves called upon to do extraordinary things.
It's also a grandson's story.
Author John W. Peace grew up listening to his Papaw Jimmie's stories firsthand on their family dairy farm. Some were about war and airplanes. Others were about family, farming, neighbors and life in the mountains before the world changed.
Those stories became A Boy From Crackers Neck.
Inside you'll discover the world that produced a B-17 pilot, the experiences that carried him through war, and the Appalachian values he brought home with him.
Family. Duty. Courage. Hard work. And the belief that you never leave your people behind.
For readers of World War II history, B-17 aviation, Greatest Generation stories, Appalachian history, rural America and true family stories, this is more than the story of one pilot.
It's the story of where he came from.
Before he became a war hero, he was a boy from Crackers Neck.
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