Whitey From Farm Kid to Flying Tiger to Attorney
Whitey From Farm Kid to Flying Tiger to Attorney is a story of his growing up on a tenant farm during the great Depression, his experience as Flying Tiger In WWII and his career as an Attorney.
From Book Reviews by Alan Caruba:
World War Two spawned hundreds of memoirs of those who played a role in it. Whitey: From Farm Kid to Flying Tiger to Attorney by Wayne G. Johnson is a classic American story, one of daring, adventure, hard work, and success. Johnson, known as Whitey, was the 11th of 14 children born to immigrant parents. He grew up on tenant farms in rural Minnesota during the Great Depression. "We were poor but didn't know it." He enlisted in the Air Corps the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was trained as a fighter pilot, and sent to China to join the famed Flying Tigers, As one of 16 P–51 Mustang fighters, he participated in the first strike against Japanese airdromes near Shanghai, destroying 97 planes on the ground without any losses. When he returned from war, he became a successful attorney. We need to remember what those times were like and how so many like Whitey returned from them to make a life for themselves.
