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With America thrust into war after Pearl Harbor, Steve E. Larson leaves behind a life of luxury in being the head CEO of the LHM Oil Company and joins the United States Army Air Force for the adventure. He quickly learns the harsh realities of war in flying combat missions from England in the summer of 1943.
As the heated battle over
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Eugene C. Mullen
I was born in Pasadena, California. My dad was an Irish Catholic from Philadelphia; my mom went to whatever church was near, from Temple City, California. They meet in the Air Force during the Koran War, at Shaw Air Force base in South Carolina. Growing up in the sixties, I like the Twelve O'clock High TV series and as I got older I started reading books on that period of time. The 8th Air Force had a mystic about in being stationed in England in earning the tag, Overpaid, Oversexed, and over Here. To me as a kid it felt like it was (Camelot), London, with the (knights) bombers going out and fighting the dragon (Germany) and returning to Piccadilly Circus.
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