Using the detailed, astonishing diary entries of his father nearly 75 years ago, a contemporary Navy fighter pilot and ICAS Board member, Captain Jim “Guido” DiMatteo, will give you an extraordinary look into the day-to-day life of a World War II Navy fighter pilot, his father Commander Dominic “Dee” DiMatteo. Get an as-it-happened, first-person account of what it was like for a young man to go to war: the training, the tragedies, the day-to-day trials and tribulations of a Naval Aviator, all happening during one of history’s epic wars. You’ll leave with a new understanding of the life of a young warrior that transcends movies or even history books as you learn what one young Navy Ensign was thinking and doing as it all happened to him and around him. |