Tag: A veteran’s Story

A VETERAN’S STORY: The Ultimate Flyboy

By Pete Mecca Arranging an interview quickly turns into something even more…

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A VETERAN’ STORY: The Nose Gunner

A dismal 25% of B-17 and B-24 bomber crews completed their 25…

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Mister Incorrigible

Job description from a WWII B-17 training manual, “The inflight Armorer-Gunner inspects,…

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Coming Home – Part II

Shot down in enemy-held territory while on a bombing run in Vietnam…

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Coming Home – Part I

Mike was a spitting image of what most people believe a young…

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A Veteran’s Story Goes On The Air

One of our frequent writers, Pete Mecca, has been offered his own…

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Unarmed and Out of Fuel

By Pete Mecca On Dec 6, 1941 a flight of thirteen B-17…

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Dustoff in Burma?

By Pete Mecca A ‘dustoff’ in Burma? Pete, you mean Vietnam, right?…

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A Veteran’s Story: Kilroy Was Here!

'Kilroy Was Here' - this iconic doodle with its accompanying phrase became popular graffiti the…

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A Veteran’s Story: Caribou to Santabou

By Pete Mecca Born and raised in Cajun country, Alan Gravel received…

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