This episode features Jerry Wolf. He was in the Army Air Corps. and served in Europe as a Flight Engineer in a B17 bomber during World War 2.
Some of the topics we discuss: Jerry talks about growing up in Brooklyn, New York and being an Air Raid Warden after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. We discuss why he decided to join the military and his training to work on Bomber engines. Jerry talks about doing bombing runs into Germany and talks about the “Whisky Truck” that would come by after every mission. Jerry shares about what it is like flying through flak and battling against German fighter planes 25,000 fee in the air.