Honorable Heart - Memoirs from Colorado to B29s to Iowa

Honorable Heart tells of a youngster growing up on Colorado Springs in the 1920s and losing his parents at an early age. He worked at various jobs and went on to college, but his love of flying and airplanes was too great and led him to California and eventually into the Army Air Corp. He wanted to be a pilot, but instead became a navigator on a B-29, and at the end of WWII, during Armistice and on a mercy mission flight to a POW camp with supplies, his plane was shot down by the Russians, and he bailed out into the Sea of Japan where he did not know if he would live or die. General MacArthur had to intervene to have the crew of the "Hog Wild" released from the same POW camp to which they were taking supplies. After the war, he made home in Waterloo, Iowa, with a wife and six children and owning his own businesses. This book is a glimpse of survival from a young child through WWII and to his final days at age 83.