Oscar J. H. Thomas joined the 45th Division of the National Guard in 1939 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to make some extra money for his family. Little did he know that this commitment would take him across an ocean into World War II, where he would fight battles in Sicily and France, sustain a head injury, become captured by Germans and imprisoned in a Nazi prison camp, Oflag 64. After making a courageous escape, he wandered across Poland looking for his fellow soldiers. This is the story of Thomas, his brothers, and the other fighting men of the 180th Infantry Regiment, the Thunderbirds.