We Never Said Good-bye: Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II

We Never Said Good-Bye: Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II is the wartime memoir of Jack I. Moore, who flew 36 missions in the Pacific in the final year of World War II. For his service, Moore earned a Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and five Air Medals. Moores candid chronicle is an honest look at personal struggles and achievements of a member of the Greatest Generation. It is a story of triumph and tragedy, of Purple Hearts, Iwo Jima, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of disease, kamikazes, family, life, fathers and sons, mothers and sisters, birth, death, war, loss, faith, atheism, quiet joy, fear, bomb runs and locker runs, jazz bands, courage, heroism, and even occasional stupidity. From the bitterly cold winter morning when he leaves his Minneapolis home in 1943, to his return at the end of the war, this book celebrates those who served during World War II, while embracing the complex range of emotions and experiences that are unique to a time of war. In his memoir, Moore provides a first-person account of his service during World War II and the people and experiences he encountered along the way. We were a B-24 bomber crew, Moore writes, our ten and twelve hour missions were entirely over the wide Pacific, and on a couple of occasion we brushed very close to history. They were experiences that flash in my mind, snapshots that will be with me forever. This is one soldiers extraordinary story.