Dear Mom Dad & Ethel

Don Quix loves taking risks. When Don is caught AWOL with buddy Ken Jackson his dreams of flying are shattered but he still manages to become a sergeant radio truck operator in a fighter control squadron. Ken is sent to a demolition unit.</P><P>During a baseball game in a French forest Don narrowly escapes a sniper's bullet. In Verviers and Liège Belgium he has daily encounters with buzz bombs but suffers only minor cuts dodging shrapnel. Using forged passes to visit a girlfriend; he freely roams restricted areas when similarly-daring soldiers are court-martialed.</P><P>But Sergeant Quix's jauntiness is tempered by tragic loss. His reunion with Ken in Verviers is violently cut short. Another close friend Technical Sergeant Stanley Firestone dies in a V-1 attack while pulling a shift for a newly engaged radio man.</P> <P>Meanwhile Don begins a torrid love affair with Denise Vervier a beautiful Belgian seamstress far wiser than her 23 years. Denise's husband was sent to a forced labor camp four years ago and is presumed dead. When he unexpectedly returns Don and Denise face the most difficult decision of their lives.</P>