For the last eight years, I've been working on a 'based on true story' book about this photograph. The book is written, an now being edited. However, I still don't have a title. 

In this photograph, you can see an American airman being escorted by six German guards after he parachuted into a tree in Elisabethville, France. 

My story, is about how he got there as well as a separate story of the Frenchman saluting  him from across the square. 

The stories are about them individually before and during World War II until they are intertwined in this captured moment on film

The book continues on with their lives up until the European war ended. 

I'm quite proud of this story. I only hope I've done both men justice in my telling of such a somber, yet encouraging moment in history.

This is for James Weldon Mellody and Robert Mourand, two heroes from the greatest generation.