A Cause Greater Than Self

Crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress sits on the nose of their plane at Thurleigh Airfield, England. May 1943.

In his civilian life one million years ago, he was a boy from Connecticut who had found work at a Massachusetts ice cream plant.

But the war had come and everything had changed.

Now, Forrest Hartin was a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, living…