My Dad passed last Monday. He enlisted int he Army Air Corps while still in high school, but they wouldn't take him until he graduated. Luckily, he washed out of flight school in Florida, crashing a BT-13 on a solo, even though the official report (from 1942) says it wasn't his fault. Good for me, eh? He did serve with the 8th Air Force in England, in airfield operations in Metfield and North Pickenham...told us about the ammo dump explosions and being strafed by JU-88's...and even when at movies in London haveing to go into the basement to take cover...
No "war-hero," but clearly anyone who went overseas was at severe risk...I even just found out he got a "Dear John" letter while there (WTF! :numbness
...
really good for
me LOL...
He was 94, not many WWII vets left, worked with a bunch in the fire dept and then the Korean War vets...from my take, the
entire Korean War was like the Battle-of-the-Buldge in Europe...politics aside, we owe a lot to these guys who did what they were asked to do.