- Blood, guts and modesty: 70 years after the start of WWII, a new book records the moving and humorous accounts of a … (Daily Mail: World News) – Blood, guts and modesty: 70 years after the start of WWII, a new book records the moving and humorous accounts of a generation of heroes
- Flew in Enola Gay during WWII (Chicago Sun-Times) – Imagine Joyce H. Kress’ surprise when she read about the atomic bomb being dropped on Japan and realized that she had once ridden on the plane that made the historic flight.
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials.
At that time the U.S. was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.