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Westheimer, David Kaplan was born on April 11, 1917 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Adolf and Esther (Kaplan) Westheimer.
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Joe Tom Ritter, navigator on a B-24 Liberator bomber has been a POW more than two years when he is liberated by an American spearhead. In this light-hearted novel, instead of going home, Ritter hitchhikes to Paris in search of companionship.
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On May 25, 1945, while American and Japanese forces on Okinawa were locked in bitter struggle, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff sent out plans for an amphibious invasion which would subjugate Japan. Operation Olympic” was to seize Kyushu, while Operation Coronet” was to strike directly against the Tokyo area. Westheimer’s meticulously researched novel about this plan startled readers in the 1970s.
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In 1941 Westheimer was in a B-24 that ditched off the coast of Italy. It was the first American plane to be lost over Italy in the early days of WW2. Behind enemy lines, the author & 6 other survivors were taken to a camp at Poggio Mirteto before being assigned to another Italian POW camp. After 9 months in captivity, the prisoners had a brief brush with freedom. Retaken by advancing Germans before they could escape, they were transported through the Alps, to Stalag Luft III. Westheimer spent 19 more months in German hands before he was finally liberated by American troops on April 29, 1945. Westheimer wrote this book shortly after his release. Photos.
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Westheimer, David Kaplan was born on April 11, 1917 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Adolf and Esther (Kaplan) Westheimer.
Bachelor of Arts, Rice Institute, Houston, 1937.
But the book proved hugely popular and the story had become so iconic that its publisher Bantam Books (and one supposes the authors, by mutual arrangement) took Westheimer"s name off the book to move it into the "literature" category and keep it in print (which they did, for decades). Subsequent printings were branded only Justice of the Peace Miller"s Days of Wine and Roses without an explicit by-line for the novel. Westheimer, a Rice University graduate, worked as an assistant editor for the Houston Post from 1939 to 1946 except for those years spent with the United States Army Air Forces during World World War World War II As a navigator in a B-24 he was shot down over Italy on December 11, 1942 and spent time as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III. His first novel, Summer on the Water, was published in 1948.
In addition to Von Ryan"s Express, Westheimer also wrote a television pilot set in an Italian prisoner of war camp called Campo 44.
Sitting it Out: A World World War II Prisoner Of War Memoir, Rice University Press, 1992.
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Served to captain United States Army Air Force, 1941-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Served to captain United States Air Force, 1950-1953. Lieutenant colonel United States Air Force.
Retired; Member American Civil Liberties Union, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Writer's Guild American West. Author's Guild, Retired Officer Association, California Writers Club.
Married Doris Gertrude Rothstein, October 9, 1945. Children: Fred, Eric.