101-Year-Old WWII Bombardier Shares Story of Surviving 50 B-24 Missions

101-Year-Old WWII Bombardier Shares Story of Surviving 50 B-24 Missions

Flying into Danger More than eighty years ago, a young airman named Dan Dorchak took to the skies in one of the most dangerous theaters of World War II. Now 101 years old, Dorchak recalls those days through the yellowed pages of his wartime diary and the logbook he kept for every mission. As a B-24 bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Forces, he flew 50 missions against the Japanese Army and Navy, facing threats not only from enemy fire but from the …