At the age of 20, my Dad left college and entered the U.S. Military in World War II. After training as a Navigator-Bombardier in the Army Air Corps, he was assigned to the Army Air Corps 8th Air Force 401st Bomb Group (Heavy) that flew out of Deenethorpe, England. The “Heavy” indicated he was part of a B-17 crew, the planes known as the “Flying Fortress.”