Duwayne K. Redmann, aka DK, was a small-town Midwesterner anxious to get on with life after the end of WWII and his own high school graduation. With his mother, a one-room school teacher and his dad, a chronically ill truck driver and three younger siblings, Duwayne knew there was no inheritance in his future, so he decided to "join up" immediately following graduation. Choosing the Marine Corps was a natural decision after hearing all the heroic war stories and seeing all the movie newsreels of the last several years. As chronicalled in his memoirs, Duwayne was only 17 when he enlisted and needed his folk's permission to join. Early in his saga, when he returned home for a holiday visit, he reveals his high school sweetheart. Later she becomes his wife and mother of their three children. Duwayne and his family lived a simple, lower middle class, Christian lifestyle. Normalcy was the theme of his life following his ten years of Marine flying escapades detailed in his book. Six grands and ten great grands later, they all mourned his passing at 88 years old. DK, ever true to his 50 year secrecy promise to Secretary Forrestal, wrote his memoirs beginning in 2010. He had not even shared most of his military activities with his wife, until he wrote them in this manuscript. As he later stated, he just wanted his children and their offspring to hear "what Grandpa had done when he flew for the Marine Corps."