This is the memoir of an eighteen-year-old World War II Army Air Corp Cadet. Join him as he matures over his three years in the military learning to fly, handle success, failure, and love. If youre looking for the usual war story, this isnt it, but you will experience the military environment at an unusual time in military history. There is a tragic part to Harrys story that he secretly carries with him until the writing of his memoir. He now shares with his family and the reader in order to heal from it. The second half of the memoir is entitled "String of Pearls." It takes on after the war through the next sixty-five years of his life representing the string of his lifes necklace. The pearls are short memoir stories he wrote, and saved over the years, and now interejects them. Harry writes with humor and hope as he contemplates his long lifes journey.