Your Loving Son, Ty (2nd ed.)

Madsen "Ty" Cobb Kokjer grew up in a small city in the middle of Nebraska. Halfway through college in 1940, he chose the adventure of becoming an Army Air Corps pilot. This book is the memoir he might have written about the war he so unexpectedly found himself in the midst of.  After a year of exhilaration - learning to fly, visiting new places, meeting other young men like himself from all over the country - Ty and his friends arrived in the Philippines days before Japan bombed Pearl Harbo