On Memorial Day weekend our family remembers and honors my Uncle Marvin, who is credited with 52 bombing missions over France and Germany as navigator in a B-17, the famous Flying Fortress. You might be especially interested in that part of this article, when his one year National Guard enlistment turned into military service that lasted all of World War II and took him from Alaska (where his unit was bombed by the Japanese) to England where his Eighth Air Force was stationed to fly over the Channel and bomb Nazi installations in ... (more)