Five Years Under The Swastika

At an Air Force Association dinner-meeting at MACDILL Air Force Base, I was asked to relate my experiences of the Allied bombing of the Netherlands during World War ll.
Though it was "horrendous" as far as the parents were concerned, we as kids thought it was an adventure. Having to get out of bed at night during air-raids and standing in the back yard watching searchlights catching bombers was fascinating. Seeing shot-up burning planes spiraling down may have been terrible for the aircrew, ...