| For This Marvelous Country is the inspiring true life story of a B-17 combat pilot in the 8th Air Force, 92nd Bomb Group in Europe during WWII. Bill, Captain William B. Rose, recounts his first twenty-five combat missions, including the epic air raids on Schweinfurt and Brunswick. In 1943 Marg wrote a letter to Bill, the pilot of her brother’s crew. The letters they shared were “friendly, but not familiar”; a reflection of Bill’s military training. Bill returns to Europe in 1944 for a second combat tour in the B-17. At the end of the war, in 1945, Bill and Marg, two strangers who shared the cares and concerns of wartime through correspondence, found themselves in a quandary - “Where do we go from here?”
Bill accomplished a monumental task by completing two combat tours as a B-17 bomber pilot in Europe during WWII. This book pays homage to him and to all who served and are presently serving. It will inspire future generations to remember our veterans and to discover the patriotic fervor exemplified by the WWII generation.
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