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About the BookThe book provides an account of the author's experiences in the army from October 1942 to September 1945, and, to a substantial extent, a narrative about the operations of the Army Air Force's 404th Fighter Group from the time of its activation early in 1943 to September 1945-the thirty-month interval during which he served in it as a nonflying enlisted man and noncommissioned officer. From April 1944 until V-E Day, the group operated successively from seven bases and strips in England, Normandy, elsewhere in France, in Belgium, and in Germany, with its pilots completing an aggregate of some 30,346 combat hours. For its war activities, it became the recipient of a U. S. Presidential Unit Citation and a Croix de guerre with palm bestowed by the President of France. Each member of the group was decorated with a Belgian fourragere. Of the some 1,000 individuals serving in the group, forty-three lost their lives during the months of combat, almost all of them pilots. Though deactivated in November 1945, the unit's survivors have retained ties through periodic reunions and through a newsletter entitled Poop Sheet, which continues to be issued several times a year.
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Michael Matthews
reviewed Memories Of World War II: A Mississippi Farm Boys Story on October 15, 2011
Memories Of World War II: A Mississippi Farm Boys Story
Occasionally I find one, hidden among the travel section at my local public library. A jewel of a book about the destination I am researching. More than a travel guide, a book that just doesn't fit in any other category. Usually a first hand account about travel within an area. I like to think, if they weren't so famous, this is where you would find the journals of the travels of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark up the Missouri River, or the memoirs of Audubon as he painted birds across the southern States.
This time I found the personal journal of a man that travels the length of the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca, Minnesota to his home in New Orleans, Louisiana on a homemade river craft. He undertakes the journey to heal himself of the mental wounds he suffered during the first Gulf War of the 1990s and to reconcile his feelings about our present involvement in the Middle East.
Mark Ericksen has a natural no nonsense, but engaging style of writing that is both stark and fruitful. Perhaps a cross between Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway. However, it is not his style, but what he has to say that is of interest. As he travels down the Mississippi he describes his river journey, interlaced with his journey to reconcile his experience with war and the soldiers that must fight.
I recommend this book to those of us that find pride in our nation but somehow feel we have lost our way.
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