[Catspaw]

He enlisted not long after that for the Army Air Corps and was a waist gunner on a B24 named the "Sad Sack" (probably a very common name for a plane). He served in North Africa, Italy, and Southern Europe, getting shot down twice. He was wounded by a bullet in the shoulder, received a Purple Heart and a few Bronze Stars.

Hey, so was my Dad--but he was a co-pilot on B-24's. Got the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Silver Star, in addition to a couple Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. Was shot down twice in Yugoslavia (he was missing in action when I was born) and got out with help from Tito's boys.

He'd also take $10,000 or so in money they'd pool & fly from Italy to Cairo & load the plane up with booze, in Dad's words, "a helluva lot of booze." Either my Mom or I have a picture of Dad and his crew in front of the Colliseum in Rome. It wasn't until much later that I figured out what those paper bags sitting in front of them were.

[thesharkboy]

Was your dad in the Ploesti raid? What was the name of his plane?

[fish hawk]

Real close to moms left breast as she was singing:"Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy......"