ASIN: B006DTH51Y
Publisher: ELT Press
Pages: 241
This is the story of the making of a soldier. It is the story of an everyman, his struggle for self-identity and integrity in a world at war. A Young Man's Letters from World War II, a fresh and compelling addition to the trove of firsthand accounts of life in wartime, contains over 200 letters written by a pilot-in-training to his parents back home in small-town Middle America. Beginning with the first letter, dated January 31, 1943, the correspondence offers an authentic, personal insight into how the Army Air Force was able to create professional airmen and deploy the largest air armada of all time in a relatively short period. At the same time, it mirrors one man s development from a possessor of his own self-described inferiority complex to an officer leading men into battle. It originates with Langenfeld, a private, joining 7,000 men in basic training at Jefferson Barracks ...
