Talk and Book Signing by Jared Frederick and John Homan
Sunday, March 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Centre Furnace Mansion, State College, PA
A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. He miraculously survived thirty-four combat missions over four months. Nearly eighty years later, he teamed up with Penn State Altoona history professor Jared Frederick to author a powerfully revealing memoir of the air war in Europe. Read More