Old Man in a Baseball Cap
Subtitle: A Memoir of World War II
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 25 Aug 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780060194260
Subjects: Historical - U.S; Personal narratives, American; Flight navigators, Military; Biography & Autobiography; United States; Biography / Autobiography; Military - World War II; Biography/Autobiography; Military; General; World War, 1939-1945; Biography; Rochlin, Fred,; 1923-; Aerial operations, American
First sentence: IN DECEMBER 1942, I FINISHED my cadet training, was commissioned a second lieu , and was ordered to Mather Field near Sacra , California, to meet the crew I was to be assigned to.
Description: "In 1942 Fred Rochlin joined the Army Air Corps. After eight months of training, he was stationed in Italy, serving as the navigator on a B-24 bomber and flying missions over Germany. Fifty such missions were required for a successful tour of duty. This was the first time that Fred Rochlin had been away from home. He was nineteen years old."--BOOK JACKET.