""What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" Part 3-A" Topic

After many years, I've finally added another posting to my series about my father's WW2 service, this time with the first ten bombing missions he flew over Nazi Europe.

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The other 19 missions will be covered in future posts.

Jim

Jim,

Awesome reading! Thank your dad for leaving us his account to read.

Jim, while my father was in Korea, I had I had eight uncles in World War Two. One uncle lost an arm and the use of both legs on a patrol in Germany. Though he did not tell his family, a newspaper article was written about his action by a Flagstaff reporter.

That was great! Thanks for sharing and I look forward to the rest!

Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the kind comments. Unfortunately my father was killed by a hit & run drunk driver in 1976. The driver was caught, prosecuted, and went to jail for a while. But of course nothing the legal system did to him could replace what he stole from us.

My father never really talked about his days in the 8th Air Force. What little I recall will be included in my blog postings.

Later,

Jim

That's so characteristic of that generation. My departed grandfather in law was an 8th AF B-17 navigator – and that is nearly the sum total of the information we could get out of him about that topic. Even admitting that much made him crotchety and irritable. He just wouldn't talk about it, and he took most of his experiences to the grave.

I admire their modesty and respect their right to privacy and personal coping mechanisms, but I'm sad we lost so many of their stories this way.

Thanks for posting this stuff. It's good reading.

- Ix