In brief, this captivating story, “My Darling Boys”, we learn how it was that three sons fromone farm family in the Pecos River Valley of eastern New Mexico near Hagerman at theoutbreak of World War II decided to fly fighter planes for the Army Air Forces than work in anearby factory. Not until 1973 did one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a young B-24 top turretgunner and flight engineer between 1943 and 1945, write ‘Memories of World War II’, still anunpublished manuscript. In it, as here in Chapters 7, 8, and 9, Allison described how on amission over Regensburg, Germany, his bomber, riddled by new Luftwaffe fighters, went down.Miraculously, he survived, albeit quickly captured, enduring almost 16 months in Hitler’s stalagprisons. That priceless 1973 memoir, cogent yet enthralling even then, became the initialsource for “My Darling Boys”. From the memoir he retells the minutia of training, first combats,
and pow experiences.
