I understand so much more now than when I started to write these posts. I’m still only on page 266, half way through. I cried as I read first-hand stories about the brave men who flew these B-17’s and watched their friends die. On the plane ride home, I studied another hundred pages. The lady next to me finally asked, “Are you a teacher?” During my plane ride, I was devouring Masters of the Air, highlighting anything I thought was pertinent to Herman’s story and feverishly taking notes in a little journal. DiGeorge, another World War II veteran who at the end of the war liberated a Nazi concentration camp.
Last week I flew to Pennsylvania to spend a week with my mother-in-law, widow of John D. And because the author interviewed so many veterans he was able to bring the history to life with their stories. The bibliography is extremely impressive. It is a remarkable history of the Eighth Air Force. He was a small boy at the time, but he remembers that his mother wore the jacket when she would hang up the family wash in the backyard. However, I haven’t said enough.ĭonald Miller explains that his book began the moment he discovered his father’s World War II flight jacket in his grandparent’s attic. (2006) I have already mentioned the book Masters of the Air. Masters of the Air, WWII Book by Donald L.
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