"For six tense weeks in 1943, Sidney Shore was missing in action.

"The young man was an Army Air Forces bombardier, part of a B-24 crew that was shot down while flying bombing raids out of Tunisia into Italy. The co-pilot and the tail-gunner were killed, but Mr. Shore, who jumped from the burning plane, survived and was captured by Italian soldiers waiting below.

"It was the start of more than two years of life as a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany, during which Mr. Shore edited a monthly newsletter, taught a class on short stories to fellow POWs, and marched in subfreezing temperatures to another prison camp, where Gen. George S. Patton's troops freed him."

Obituary: Sidney Shore /World War II POW and a man of the world