Full name: My Honor Flight: The remarkable stories of Buzz Company

Author: Dan McCurrigan Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, War/Military, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9798755555371

A young soldier accompanies his great grandfather, Doug Mackinack, on an Honor Flight-a sponsored trip to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. The old man shares stories from his platoon's tour in Europe, many ending in dramatic (or occasionally, humorous) twists. The increasingly moving stories document Buzz Company's journey through a broad range of humanity: Fear. Courage. Compassion. Anger. Love. Death. Eccentricity. Loyalty. Mercy. Retribution. The company started as a hodgepodge of naive kids, left over from other companies. But they had a certain swagger, thanks to the personalities in Mackinack's Ninth Platoon. As they traveled through France, Belgium, and Germany in the course of one year, they became battle-hardened veterans. In a defining moment near the end of his tour, Mackinack was forced to decide his path in a split second. Would he return to the man he was before the war, or would he become the killer the war had created? When Mackinack and his great grandson reach the monument, there is one final surprise tied to events sixty six years earlier. Similar books: We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Harold G. Moore The Great Santini by Pat Conroy The First Team by John B. Lundstrom Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East by David Stahel Operation Jedburgh by Colin Beavan Dirty work by Larry Brown Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions by Samuel Eliot Morison A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy by Paul S. Dull Operation Drumbeat by Michael Gannon Beyond the Beachhead by Joseph Balkoski Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor The Red Baron by Richard Fox Monty's Men by John Buckley Eisenhower's Lieutenants by Russell F. Weigley Black N by Ricky Conlin Monty and Rommel by Peter Caddick-Adams Autumn of Glory by Thomas Lawerence Connelly The Battered Bastards of Bastogne by George Koskimaki 1914 by Lyn MacDonald Song for Night by Chris Abani