Download Rough War: The Combat Story of Lt. Paul J. Eastman, a "Burma Banshee" P-40 and P-47 Pilot AudioBook Free
Battle exhaustion...shell impact...PTSD... terminology changes. The pain remains. Paul Eastman, a small-town Wisconsin young man changed P-40 fighter pilot, lands in the jungles of Assam and Burma in 1943. Lt. Eastman's engaging storyline, gleaned from his journal and characters home and illustrated along with his personal images, provides unique insights in to the realities of fight life and loss of life, punctuated by love and concern for the better half he left behind. Writer Walt Shiel skillfully interleaves an interesting record of the broader war into Eastman's personal accounts. Eastman evolves from an innocent overseas to a fatalistic fight veteran - through missions that careen from mundane to adrenalin-fueled within a heartbeat and through the laughter, revelry, camaraderie, exhaustion, and loss of life that surround lifestyle. And through the "soul-numbing terror" of being taken down behind adversary lines. Like warriors before and after him, Eastman's war will not end after his 20 weeks of fight. After ten years of attempting to adjust, he finally takes his own life in a poignant show that could be raised from today's headlines. Paul Eastman's war is, indeed, a Abrasive War. Listen to Eastman's storyline, then give thanks to the veterans, recent and present, who combat and expire to protect our freedoms.
