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  • Mac

  • The Wind Beneath My Wings
  • By: Sherry Hobbs
  • Narrated by: Lowell Neumann
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Mac

By: Sherry Hobbs
Narrated by: Lowell Neumann
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"This book is a triumph."—MJV Literary

When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, forcing the U.S. to enter WWII, MAC was 23 years old.

He had graduated with honors from high school, served two years in the Merchant Marine, and had a year of college under his belt. During the summer he had graduated from DePaul University's preliminary army air course to become a pilot and graduated as their highest-ranking student. Joining the U.S. Army Air Forces, he was assigned to the newly formed 307th BG and trained to fly the brand-new B-24 Liberator. Like Lou Zamperini—of Unbroken—who was also in the 307th, Mac's plane was shot down in the ocean. It was his first combat mission from Guadalcanal. After a three-week odyssey, he and his surviving crew members were rescued, and he went on to fly 51 more combat missions from his base in the Solomon Islands. In 1943, the following year, he was brought back to the U.S. to be trained on the even newer B-29 Superfortress. This was the plane designed to carry the atomic bombs. He flew 30 missions in 1945 from Guam dropping incendiaries on Japan. The Japanese finally surrendered just as the wheels of the Superfortress touched down on Mac's 30th mission. The war was over.

After the war, MAC served as director of air training for the 20th Air Force during the Korean War, as air attaché to French Indochina, at NATO prior to the Vietnam War, and as director of war plans for TAC during the Vietnam War. This is his story.

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Loved the book I’m glad I get the chance to learn about my great grandfather who sadly passed a few years before I was born. Definitely worth a listen an amazing man that did some amazing things in WW2

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The telling of not only the main characters life, but also of his child. Was good and unexpected.

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