I just finished a recently published book titled The Secret of Anzio Bay.
This is a heart-warming story about a U.S. Army Air Corps P-40 pilot (Lt. Michael Mauritz) who ditched his aircraft off the Anzio Beach Head after an engine failure. He was taken prisoner by the Germans, escaped, and hiked for five months from N. Italy to S. Italy where he met up with allied troops and returned to the U.S.
In 1998 the P-40 was recovered in shallow water off Anzio and sits in the Piana delle Orme museum in Latina, Italy.
I highly recommend this book. See
www.anziobay.com and it is available on Amazon. Also see
www.pianadelleorme.it for info on the museum.
