“Trails and Trials of a WW II Pilot and His Bride” is a true story of love and war, covering a five-year period, 1941-1946. It is funny. It is sad. It describes the hopes and anxieties, the adventures and misadventures of a young couple who were making every effort to live life to it’s fullest for all the time they had. Jim Sullivan’s flight training, flight overseas and his thirty missions as a B-17 pilot with the 384^th Bomb Group that earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross, an Air Medal with four clusters and the Presidential Citation, are described in detail.
The author’s brother, Claude Ray Hawkins, a navigator with the 306^th Bomb Group, was on one of these missions to Berlin. He was shot down and killed over Holland. The description of this air battle as told by a Dutch lady is included.

The book tells of the impact the war had on the small town of Clewiston, Florida, where there was a Royal Air Force Flight Training School and a Prisoner of War camp. And how the citizens coped with the waiting, shortages and stress.

Many books are written by the participants but this one is written as a memorial to the author’s deceased husband and brother.

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Southern Heritage Press
P.O. Box 10937, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33733
Phone 800-282-2823
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Louise Sullivan
606 Ridgeview Circle
Clewiston, Florida, 33440
Email: mlhjds@gate.net 
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