Homeward Lieutenant: World War II Letters

Early in 1943 the 20-year-old author of these letters was inducted into the US Army just as the war in Europe was heating up. Classified as a pilot he spent the remaining months of that year in flight training in Alabama Georgia and Florida.The following year this farmers son from Bedford County Pennsylvania found himself somewhere in England. During three-and-a-half hectic months of 1944 he co-piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress on 35 long bombing missions over heavily defended enemy cities.After hi...See More