No Need to Die 12+

🔖 An advertising man from Connecticut became the first American airman of World War Two to be shot down and the first to be taken prisoner.A Coney Island lifeguard flew a full tour of thirty ops as a Lancaster pilot, joined 617 Squadron, went on the dambusters raid and finished as Squadron Leader, DSO, DFC and Bar.In between were a score of American volunteers who mostly came in before Pearl Harbor through the Royal Canadian Air Force. This is their story: fifteen airmen killed in action and six who survived.A Milwaukee boy had to ditch in the Channel. Two of his crew died; he lived to be killed himself a few weeks later. The son of an old Boston family was killed with all his crew over Berlin on the last of his tour as a bomber captain.One man from New Jersey trained as a gunner and was killed on his first op, another from California on his eighth.They all knew they didn't have to do it. There was no need for them to die.