At the Veterans Breakfast Club,
Stories Unite Us.
Check out our online & in-person veterans storytelling programs and see our full event schedule below. All are welcome to join us!
Bring your questions and curiosity to this conversation about our VBC Masters of the Air Tour of World War II East Anglia Air Fields . Even if you don’t plan to travel with us in September, you’ll still learn a lot about the sights we’ll see and the history we’ll trace. Trip Historians Todd DePastino and Glenn Flickinger will talk about the trip, answer questions, and highlight some of the sights we’ll take in and people we’ll meet.
Jim Keeffe and Carol Godwin joins Glenn to tell the stories of their fathers who were Airmen in World War II.
Jim Keeffe’s father, B-17 Pilot James Keeffe, was shot down in Holland and evaded capture. Jim will tell his father’s shoot-down story, his evasion in Holland, and his assistance from the Resistance, which provided documents that showed him to be a deaf mute. Eventually, he did get caught after his long evasion.
Carol Goodwin is the niece of Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets who flew the B-29 Enola Gay and dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, and is the daughter of Stalag Luft II POW Capt. William Carey, who was a chief operative in Military Intelligence Service-X ( MIS-X), which was highly secret and functioned out of Ft. Hunt in Alexandria, VA. Bill had been co-piloting an experimental YB40 [reconfigured B-17] on a run to bomb the Hüls synthetic rubber plant Recklinghausen in northern Germany when he was shot down in June 1943.