Combat Missions from Italy

Combat Missions from Italy is the story of an Army Air Force pilot and his crew during World War II. It includes entries from his diary, written on the nights following each of twenty-eight missions, flying from southern Italy to targets over German occupied territory. It focuses on his personal experiences before, during and after the war, and also tells of his school-day friends who later became pilots in the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Army Air Force. It includes his concerns over decisions made on his last mission and the unexpected detailed revelations uncovered sixty-eight years later. about that mission.