I was reading documentation that referred to the portion of World War 2 fought in the Western Desert as the good war. The war was good because

The British 8th Army came together in 1939 in the desert of North Africa to deal with the aggression of Italy and Germany. Four years later, Eighth Army was disbanded

As I go through my grandfather’s pictures, I have so many questions, little mysteries that make my brain itch. Some of the big questions concern his exact whereabouts

Two months of planning comes to a head tomorrow at 2:07 as I take off for Cairo and my tour of the World War 2 battlefields

When I started to consider the documentary about my Grandfather’s book, it occurred to me that in all the research I had done, a viewpoint was missing.

One of the things that drove me crazy in Papa’s book was when he would say something along the lines of “The pilots told some great stories after their missions last night

In my search for other perspectives of what happened in the Western Desert, I came across the self published memoir of Master Sergeant Bill Hahn.

My grandfather passed away in 1975 at the age of 69. I was 12 at the time and only have vague recollections of him. The only solid memory I have