The Pre-Atomic Age
Fooks, Leslie Eugene
The author believes that his teacher, Mrs. White, laid the foundation for everything he has learned since. She gave her students a taste of the world outside.When he graduated from high school, he joined the Air Corps and became a B17 pilot flying over Hitler occupied Europe in August and September of 1944.The author and his co-pilots were given a plane nicknamed "Holy Joe." It had 90 holes in it (they were patched with aluminum) when they wer...