Twenty-Five Missions

A pilot's journal, his daughter's keepsake, a record of valor in the skies over Europe. This first-person account of World War II is a father-daughter collaboration. Charles's contribution is the material he left behind: a nostalgic introduction about his youth and adolescence during the great depression, entries from the journal he kept after he joined the army ad went through training in the Army Air Corps, and his flight log, a record of the 25 missions he flew over Europe from November 1943 - 1944. Interspersed between and among Charles entries are annotations by his daughter, Candace, who comments on the events in Charles's journal and gives historical background information about what was going on in the war effort at that time.