We Never Said Good-Bye

We Never Said Good-Bye: Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II is the wartime memoir of Jack I. Moore who flew 36 missions in the Pacific in the final year of World War II. For his service Moore earned a Purple Heart Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals. It is a story of triumph and tragedy and one of the last memoirs from a member of the Greatest Generation. Moore's candid chronicle is an honest look at personal struggles and achievements. It is a story of Purple Hearts Iwo Jima Hiroshima and Nagasaki of disease kamikazes family life fathers and sons mothers birth death war loss faith atheism quiet joy fear bomb runs and jazz bands courage heroism and even occasional stupidity. From the bitterly cold winter morning when he leaves his Minneapolis home in 1943 to his return at the end of the war this book celebrates those who served during World War II while embracing the complex range of emotions and experiences that are unique to a time of war.