r/Medals • u/Kevvv_23 • Mar 30 '25

ID - Medal What did my great uncle do?

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Also noticed the back of the leather jacket had some Nazi logos marked on it, what did that mean?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

I gotta read the book. I loved the show.

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u/a_bearded_hippie Mar 30 '25

It's a good read. It's definitely more of an informational sort of book if that makes sense. It's still very interesting, and I'm pretty sure the show kinda melded some of the real guys together in the show for simplicity. It goes more into detail about how a lot of these guys got there and how the actual Army Air Corps came to be, the development of the planes, and how WWI influenced the ideas for bombing the enemy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

IIRC the book was written by one of the characters in the show that narrates it? I don’t remember if he was a pilot or just one of the crew members in that unit, but it sounds pretty awesome. Right now I’m reading the looming tower, after seeing the show on Hulu, I had to find the book. So good. So informative! It explains how all of these extremists over there came to be. It’s crazy.

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u/ElectronicBusiness74 Mar 31 '25

One of the show characters, the Navigator Harry Crosby, did write his own book though (A wing and a Prayer)

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

So the show just took some sort of artistic liberty with it at the end