Mac: The Wind Beneath My Wings

He survived being shot down in the Pacific. Then he went back to war.

When Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, Mac was a 23-year-old pilot in the making-bright, driven, and already determined to serve. After training with the newly formed Army Air Forces, he joined the 307th Bomb Group and learned to fly the brand-new B-24 Liberator.

On his very first combat mission from Guadalcanal, Mac's plane was shot down into the Pacific.

What followed was a harrowing fight for surviv...