I’ve been doing a lot of macro-level discussion here of late–big picture, high strategy stuff. Today, I’d like to dip down into the micro.
Men (and today, women) fight wars. They are, we are always told, ordinary individuals who find themselves in the most extraordinary situations imaginable.
The Battle of Midway was one of those situations … one of the war’s great stories was the amazing experience of Ensign George H. Gay, Jr. of Waco, TX. He was the pilot of a Devastator torpedo bomber in VT-8, and like every single man in his squadron, he experienced the terror of being shot down at sea …
This post originally appeared on World War II magazine’s Front and Center blog; click here to read the rest of this post and find more blog entries on the Second World War by Rob Citino.
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