From Campus to Combat: A College Boy Becomes a WWII Army Flier

Jim Alter was a sophomore in college when Japan attacked the United States. He enlisted, and after an Army program that condensed years of training into a few frantic months, was flying over Europe, dodging German gunners in a B-24. Alter proudly recounts the achievements of his heroic generation as he details this "impermanent, but defining chapter" of his early life.