To all the Veterans. Thank you.

@DogMan he learned how to drink. Unfortunately hisPTSD ( they didnt call it that back then) follwed him for a long time. He drank to forget

@Patriot96 Yeah my dad suffered from nightmares for the rest of his life. During the day he was normal, but at night
the war would come back. He drank a little, but since his dad was an alcoholic, he was careful not to go down that road.

He told me that guilt was a big problem. I'm sure your uncle probably felt some do to him surviving and others were taken
on their first sortie. That would bother me. Dads best friend that went through everything with him and was never the same.

@DogMan yes, my aunts told me how he would scream in his sleep reliving missions.
My uncle lied about his age. He was only 17 when he enlisted. He was a survivor of the famous Ploesti, Rumania raid of August 1, 1943. You can look it up.
They normally went over the target at about 23,000 feet. On tis raid they went in at only 30 feet. Thats correct thiirty feet.