I picture of my Dad after completing aerial gunnery training in Casper, Wyoming, in early 1944. He was deployed to England with the 8th Air Force and flew 16 combat missions in the 487th Bomb Group as a tail gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress before the war ended. After the war he had a long career as a firefighter. He died of cancer in 2005.
My dad was a navigator on a B-24 in the 93rd Bomb Group near Norwich, England and flew 35 missions. He died in 1998. I hate to see all these WW II vets pass on.
