Prince was my brothers dog and he told me he was mine now. My oldest brother was in the Combat Engineers and went to England to prepare for D Day. The other brother was bombardier on a B17 flying out of Molesworth England. He was shot down Aug 15, 1944 over Weisbaden and spent the rest of the war in a few Pow camps including Stalag III.
One sister enlisted in the Wacs but served stateside. They all came home and lived full lives. Sisters married veterans , one served in the Navy in the S Pacific and the other was in the 9 Air Force engineers building P47 air fields across France.
We were lucky at home as we lived on a farm and my father was never out of work. We got our war news from 3 day old papers, radio but most of all from the news reels at the Sat matinee at the little theater in town...
I really hope that the new PBS series about WWII does it right. From what I’ve heard it is supposedly as good as the Civil War documentary.
Thank you very much for sharing a bit of your experience. The American people who lived during that era as some of my folks did remain the most interesting study of society for me. Many books and articles under my belt and an occasional Hollywood film that does some justice to your generation always cause me to buy. Yours is the best.
Thanks for sharing this bender. My mother is 72 and remembers so vividly going to the cinema and watching the news reels. She tears up recalling the films showing paratroopers on D-Day who had been shot and killed before they could land, floating down to the ground in their parachutes.