It
is said that Colonel Bill Creech can tell a powerful tale,
a skill that materializes in his book based on his war experience
entitled, The 3rd Greatest Fight Pilot. After reading through
Bill Creech’s risky missions, and acts of survival
and heroism, a reader can wage the book would be a difficult
one to put down.
Bill Creech was a Depression-era boy who entered World
War II enticed by the excitement of flight. He entered
as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Corps,
and left a man with heroic stories to be published in his
memoir.
In 1942, Bill Creech joined the United States Army Air
Force, and in China, India, and Burma, he flew P-51As and
P-51Bs in combat. He was also a member of the Fighter Squadron,
528th Dragonflys, which received the Presidential Unit
Citation for Extraordinary Heroism for their actions in
the Burma Offensive. Serving in the brutal jungles of Burma,
Colonel Creech flew sixty missions against Japanese military
targets as a Dragonfly.
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