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ONE SAILOR’S

ADVENTURE

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WWII

The War • The Home Front • The Pe

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WONDER JET

Takes It On

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Don Bryan

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Breakout

Trapped on D-Day’s Shores,

GIs Blast through German Lines

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AMERICA IN

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The War • The Home Front • The People

August 2014, Volume Ten, Number Two

F E A T U R E S

14 BREAKOUT FROM NORMANDY

The Allies put their feet in Europe on D-Day. But they got trapped on the coast for seven weeks.

Then came a master plan to punch through German lines. By Éric Grenier

24 LOSING DAD

Hundreds of thousands of American men left children behind when they left home to fight.

Many never returned. What was it like to be young, innocent, and orphaned by war? By Allyson Patton

32 HUNTING GERMANY’S WONDER JET

The Arado Blitz flew 100 mph faster than America’s Mustang. But Mustang pilot Don Bryan refused

to be outclassed. He was dead set on taking the enemy down. By Robert F. Dorr

38 A SAILOR’S ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME

Dad joined the navy eager for something new. He found it: kamikaze attacks, a deadly typhoon,

the Japanese surrender ceremony. And he brought back photos to prove it. By John E. Stanchak

d e p a r t m e n t s

2 KILROY 4 V-MAIL 6 PINUP: Frances Gifford 8 HOME FRONT: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy

10 THE FUNNIES: The Flash 11 FLASHBACK 12 LANDINGS: One Man’s Museum Near Boston 46 WAR STORIES

48 I WAS THERE: Dogfighting through Europe 58 BOOKS AND MEDIA 60 THEATER OF WAR: What Did You

Do in the War, Daddy? 62 78 RPM: Helen Forrest 63 WWII EVENTS 64 GIs: A Ground Man Who Wanted Wings

COVER SHOT: Don Bryan, shown in front of his P-51D Mustang fighter Little One III , spotted his first German Arado Blitz

jet bomber in December 1944. After that, he spent a good number of hours obsessing over how to take one down.

The opportunity to test what he learned arrived in March 1945. US ARMY

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Dads inUniform

T HE ONLY UNIFORM MY DAD WORE DURING W ORLD W AR II was one of those pint-size

army uniforms that soldiers used to buy for their sons and kid brothers. His came from

an older brother, and there’s a photo of him wearing it in front of his house. Sadly, no

one seems to be able to locate that print right now or you’d be looking at it here.

It was several years ago that I first saw that photo, when it was handed to me along

with a letter that Dad’s brother Al had written to him from the Pacific. Uncle Al offered

his hard-earned assessment that the front was no place to be and threw in some advice:

learn to type so, with any luck, if you get drafted, they’ll make you a clerk far away

from the fighting. Dad already had taken typing classes, so he was set, but the war

ended before he reached draft age.

Uncle Sam did come for him a few years later, during the Korean War. Dad was put on

a ship and sent to the Pacific—and was seasick the entire way. Uncle Al’s advice proved

wise, and the army needed Dad’s typing ability most of all—and needed it in Japan, far

from the front. “Radar O’Reilly” was how he described himself to me. When Dad died

a handful of years ago, my brothers and I were going through his stuff and found an

album filled with wartime photos of him in Japan. None of us had ever heard about it,

let alone seen it. Now he was gone and not a note remained to explain a thing.

John Stanchak, author of the article “A Sailor’s Adventure of a Lifetime” in this issue,

was luckier than my brothers and me. Like our dad, his dad came home with piles

of photos, but John knows what his are. They show his dad launching a new navy

destroyer, sailing on it into the Pacific, fighting the Japanese, witnessing the war-ending

surrender—and stopping often along the way for drinks! We’re all lucky in this case:

we get to see a selection of those WWII images here, along with John’s research

and recollections.

So far, the dad stories I’m telling are positive. But I’m talking about war, so the news

can’t always be good. In another father-related article in this issue, “Losing Dad,” our

book and media reviews editor, Allyson Patton, writes about what it was like to be a kid

and have your dad go off to war and not come back. Allyson talked with some of these

war orphans. They tell us about how they struggled to get to know their lost dads and

how piecing together their dads’ stories and meeting other war orphans helped.

Although I wish I had had John Stanchak’s luck with my dad’s pictures and the stories

behind them, I’m really just grateful Dad survived. When his service term was up,

Uncle Sam sent him home. By that time Dad was a streetwise, well-connected clerk with

pockets full of favors to cash in. He wasn’t about to take another seasick voyage across

the rolling Pacific. In classic Radar O’Reilly fashion, he finagled his way onto a plane.

Carl Zebrowski

Editor, America in WWII

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