Rozell, Matthew - The Things Our Fathers Saw 03 - War in the Air: Combat, Captivity, and Reunion by Rozell Matthew

Author:Rozell, Matthew [Rozell, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

As a reserve officer, George FitzGibbon was recalled during the Korean War when they needed pilots. He stayed in the Air Force, retiring in 1969 as a lieutenant colonel, the operations officer of the 41st Air Refueling Squadron at Griffiss Air Force base in New York. He passed away at the age of 93 on May 5, 2015.

chapter Six

The First Engineer

Charles P. Corea hailed from Rochester, New York, just north of where I went to college before returning to Hometown, USA to begin my teacher career. I did not actually have the opportunity to know him personally, bet felt he shared a kinship with many profiled in this book, especially since he served in the 100th Bomb Group, ‘affectionately’ known by its members as ‘The Bloody Hundredth’. He was trained as a flight engineer on a B-17 but did double duty as the top turret gunner on some of his missions, including his final one the day he was shot down. This interview took place just seven weeks after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.

‘We're all in the same boat. We all did what we had to do. I was telling this to a friend of mine the other day, that when we entered the service back in 1942, right after Pearl Harbor, all my friends and buddies and classmates, we went in and there was no doubt about what we had to do. I've never seen that much cooperation and patriotism until the September 11th. That's the only good thing that come out of September 11th, was the country coming together like it did back in 1941.’

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