Sometimes amusing, sometimes horrific, this collection of anecdotes recounts real events that happened to a young soldier in World War II. Bob Colbert wrote of his experiences from May 1942 through August 1946. Colbert trained as an aircraft mechanic and went on to serve in Europe as a member of the 459th Bomb Group, 758th Bomb Squadron. He recalls both the antics and the tragedies he witnessed as he and others tried to make sense of a world at war.