Author name: aaronelson

One last mission (excerpt) Jerry Rutigliano: I was on my 27th mission when we got shot down. See, what happened, when I first got there you had to do 25 missions. Jimmy Doolittle took over in January or February of ’44, and my first mission was in February of ’44. We got halfway through, and […]

Everything was swell (excerpt) In the hospitality room at the 1994 mini reunion in Bradenton, I spoke with Ellsworth Howard, who was wounded in the Falaise Gap and didn’t return to the battalion for several months. I had been hearing a lot about censored letters, so I asked him about it. “All the mail that