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Butch and Lenny:

A POW Love Story


Sylvia Geetter and Lenny Levy


by Sylvia Geetter Levy and Lt. Lenny Levy

Edited by Alan Neal Levy

Introduction by Alan Neal Levy


Butch and Lenny - All three volumes (1943-5)


Butch and Lenny 1 - Flight School (1943-4)

Butch and Lenny 2 - US Air Corps (1944)

Butch and Lenny 3 - POW (1944-45)


Ground School by Lenny Levy - Ground School (1942-3)


Butch and Lenny: A POW Love Story is the story of first-generation immigrants in Hartford, Connecticut. Sylvia Geetter Levy (1920-92) and Lenny Levy (1918-1973) were also Alan Neal Levy's adopted parents.

The unique letters and artifacts of a Jewish-American B-17 Navigator, shot down over Holland, who spent more than a year as a Prisoner of War in Stalag Luft 1 in Nazi Germany and the woman he loved, as they find themselves poised in the cross-hairs of History.