Request for Comments

Good day, readers.

Just a quick 'thank you' to each of you for taking the time to read--and hopefully enjoy--my daily blog on WWII airmen. As a writer, I use this blog as a warm-up to my daily writing, and it works wonderfully for that purpose. After I write it, I then move on to hours of novel-writing, my writing parts well-oiled and my prose un-purpled.

However, I'd love for the blog to become a two-way street, where readers comment on entries and suggest stories they'd like to read about. I know some of my readers are World War Two Air Corps veterans, with stories galore, and I'd love for each of you to respond to any posts that jog an old memory or call to mind a story of related interest.

So, please, dive on it. This neighborhood is as much yours as mine. Jump in and join the discussion!
A great author at work, Ernest Hemingway. No comparison to this author is intended or implied. But a guy can dream.

The Goal of this Blog

The goal of this new blog is to celebrate and honor the airmen of World War Two, regardless of their country of origin. This is a subject of great importance to me, as an aviation writer and historian. I hope to share some interesting stories about WWII airmen, and also to serve as a place where interested parties can find out more about these great men.

This has become a life's work for me. My first book, which was published in 2006 by Potomac Books, has been a critical and commercial success. My goal in writing it was to seek out little-known aspects of the air war over Europe. However, this blog is not an advertisement for my book, and I will not even mention its title here.

I am currently at work on a novel about the American airmen who flew the B-17 bomber over Europe in World War Two. In writing it, I have six World War Two air veterans acting as technical advisors. Two of them were shot down and became POWs. Another was shot down by the Swiss and became an internee. The others survived, but all were wounded. I will attempt in this blog to chronicle the writing of this novel.