World War II Pilot

This is the story of a man who joins the Army before World War II to fulfill his dream of becoming a pilot. Six months later the U.S. is at war. Learn how he becomes an Air Force B-26 pilot, falls in love at first sight & gets engaged before he’s shipped out to Europe, becomes Captain of his crew, is shot down on his next to last mission, is captured by Germans, put on a train to concentration camps, escapes, joins the French Underground and lives to join Patton’s 3rd Army liberating France.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Chapter 12 Accessories Instill Pride

Now that we were in basic training at Enid we could relax a little. We were told that over 40% of our class had "washed out," but we'd made the grade. The Army was going to instill us with pride and convince us we were the best they had. They heaped praise on us for making it to this stage of training, calling us "the cream of the crop" and telling us we had the right to be proud. We kept marching to classes in cadence singing inspirational songs. We were told we were going to be the "best trained air-force in the world." The silver wings helped a lot.