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The Things Our Fathers Saw—The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume II: War in the Air—From the Great Depression to Combat

b HOW DO YOU THINK YOU FEEL when you wake up in a hospital and find out you killed your own mother? b b JUST WHAT DO YOU DO in that moment when your plane 8217;s been hit, and you are about to crash far from home? b b i 8212; 8220;I spent a lot of time in hospitals. I had a lot of trouble reconciling how my mother died after reading the telegram she opened, saying I was shot down and missing in action; I didn 8217;t explain to her that 8216;missing in action 8217; is not necessarily 8216;killed in action 8217;, you know? I didn 8217;t even think about that. How do you think you feel when you find out you killed your own mother? 8221; 8212;B-24 bombardier, shot down, taken prisoner i b Dying for freedom isn 8217;t the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. b i 8212; 8220;I was in the hospital with a flak wound. The next mission, the entire crew was killed. The thing that haunts me is that I can 8217;t put a face to the guy who was a replacement. He was an 18-year old Jewish kid named Henry Vogelstein from Brooklyn. It was his first and last mission. He made his only mission with a crew of strangers. 8221; 8212;B-24 navigator i b Maybe our veterans did not volunteer to tell us their stories; perhaps we were too busy with our own lives to ask. But they opened up to a younger generation, when a history teacher taught his students to engage. b i 8212; 8220;The German fighters picked us. I told the guys, 8216;Keep your eyes open, we are about to be hit! 8217; I saw about six or eight feet go off my left wing. I rang the 8216;bail-out 8217; signal, and I reached out and grabbed the co-pilot out of his seat. I felt the airplane climbing, and I thought to myself, 8216;If this thing stalls out, and starts falling down backwards, no one is going to get out... 8217; 8221; 8212;B-17 pilot i b As we forge ahead as a nation, do we owe it to ourselves to become reacquainted with a generation that is fast leaving us, who asked for nothing but gave everything, to attune ourselves as Americans to a broader appreciation of what we stand for?This is the second book in the masterful WWII oral history series, but you can read them in any order. b i 8212; 8220;You flew with what I would call 8216;controlled fear 8217;. You were scared stiff, but it was controlled. My ball turret gunner 8212;he couldn 8217;t take it anymore 8230; I guess he was right. He 8217;s dead now. But he had lost control of the fear. He never got out of that ball turret; he died in that ball turret. 8221; 8212;B-24 bombardier i b b It's time to listen to them. Read some of the reviews below and REMEMBER how a generation of young Americans truly saved the world. b b i Or maybe it was all for nothing? i b b h2 8212; 8220;A must-read in every high school in America. It is a very poignant look back at our greatest generation; maybe it will inspire the next one. 8221; h2 b Reviewer, Vol. I