A GATHERING OF MEN 

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Candor, North Carolina. Saul Levitt, the town’s barber, brandished a copy of the May 1927 Charlotte Observer in front of his customer’s nose. On the front page, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis on its cross-country flight. And on the outskirts of town, best friends Lake, Roger, and Jim took turns in their improvised, wheeled but wingless crate hurtling down hill, eyes closed, imagining their future alongside Lindy. Pearl Harbor would change everything, the country, the townspeople, and the boys. They would have their chance to fly, not over North Carolina farm fields, but across Germany on bombing runs to Berlin and Merseburg and Schweinfurt facing a determined Luftwaffe. The odds of completing their tours of duty in the US Army Air Forces were slim.
Told from Lake’s perspective, A Gathering of Men is the account of the boys who boarded their aircraft for the first time and the men they became in the blink of an eye. The terrors they witnessed and the pressure to go up again and again and again brought them to the breaking point. It is a moving tale, based on a true story, about shattered dreams and enduring friendship, duty, and honor.

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