'A Tail Gunners Diary'

 

Tom Brokaw called us The Greatest Generation.

In my memoir, A Tail Gunners Diary I relive growing up during the great depression, volunteering for combat in WWII, and flying 35 missions with the Eighth Air Corp.  Join us on our first mission on D-Day and our last mission on Christmas eve 1944.  After each mission, record the details on a three foot by three foot piece of drywall next to your bunk. (My memoir used data from that mission by mission record.) Fly through skies black with flack, and feel our terror on our 10th mission when our B-24 bomber 'Edie' is hit by flack on the bomb run, knocking out one engine. Watch helplessly as the other 35 B-24 bombers in our group fly away leaving us alone in a sky full of jerry fighters. Live our tension during our trip across Europe to Normandy where our other three engines misfire and we crash in the Juno (Canadian) section of the Normandy beachhead. Feel Harry Baker's and my elation as we explore the Juno area and bump into two sexy French girls. Feel your pulse rate soar as four sex starved romantics let their imaginations run wild. Return to Britain on an LST, and visit a London PX wearing your flight gear and carrying your parachutes. See every girl in the London PX flock round to hear your thrilling story. On subsequent visits to London, escort a gorgeous English Lass as you visit the London nightspots. Experience these and other thrills during your 35 mission combat tour.  Film rights to A Tail Gunners Diary and my two published mystery/ romance novels, The Tornado Struck at Midnight, http://www.amazon.com/Tornado-Struck-at-Midnight/dp/159129729X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229873907&sr=1-1, and What Women Know: Smitten (Epiphany) http://www.amazon.com/What-Women-Know-Smitten-Epiphany/dp/1605634743/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229873907&sr=1-2, are up for grabs.. The poster (below) shows highlights of my WWII combat career. The picture below is me at 21, when I enlisted.

                Cover of  What Women Know                                Me as a 'Pirate in Carmen's troupe.  Carmen, Queen of Trinidad's 1946 Carnival

 A vidio of Art Baker's TV program, 'You Askad For It', exists demonstrating my invention of an acceleration sled. That 1954 episode of 'You Askad For It', was called Northrup's Giant Slingshot. This photo from Life magazine's article in June 1954 is about my invention and shows a clip from Art Baker's 'You Askad For It' TV program, (I was 33!).