Your Son, Norm

By Bambi Babcock Fischer

AMERICA GOES TO WAR!

It was on the heels of World War I and the Great Depression. America was recovering. And then... the bombing of Pearl Harbor!

This historical fiction is based on actual letters from a young seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the US Army.

The letters and narration give you a feeling of being there, in the mi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Apr 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798893330397

Bambi Babcock Fischer

Bambi Fischer is a retired teacher and freelance harpist. Her teaching career has embraced education levels from family literacy to adult education.Mrs. Fischer holds an M. Ed. in Administration and Supervision: Elementary Education, and has completed doctoral-level work in education.As a born-again Christian, Mrs. Fischer seeks historical truth.

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Your Son,

Norm

Bambi Babcock Fischer, M. Ed.

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ISBN 979-8-89333-038-0

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It Was 1942

My Dad

As an Army Air Corps veteran, being of the first original crew of the 1st and 7th Emergency Rescue Squadron, Dad embarked on great and mysterious adventures. His tales about rescuing a countess, being sought after to marry a sultan’s daughter, and how he put food outside of his tent because he knew the enemy was hungry captured my attention. His accounts of having monkeys for pets and a donkey that drank beer from the bottle enchanted me as a child while I attempted to visualize these scenes. Dad also told about killing a man-eating Bengal tiger, thus making him somewhat of a hero to the tribal people. One of the promotions he received came directly from General Hap Arnold in the midst of a rescue mission. Dad wrote that the beer was warm, so he invented a device to make it cooler. He wrote that it was difficult to get to sleep while hearing the eerie sound of distant drums in the jungles.

Dad loved reading, animals, antiques, and gardening. He maintained around 500 pineapple plants, even though he was almost totally blind. He also volunteered countless hours at the VA Clinic in Fort Myers, Florida.

He taught me that as long as there is breath, there is hope.

Preface

It was on the heels of World War I and the Great Depression. America was recovering.

And then… the bombing of Pearl Harbor!

This book contains italicized, typed copies of original letters sent home from a serviceman in World War II. Very little has been changed in these authentic documents. You might notice some spelling errors, grammatical errors, or punctuation errors—these are all in the confines of the original letters from the serviceman.

All letters will