In 1943, at the age of 19, Richard B. Yeager headed off to war. His travels took him from North Africa to England to France and straight into the heart of Nazi Germany. As a member of the 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion during World War 2, he saw more of the world in three years than most experience in a lifetime.He was my father.While he is gone now, he left behind a partially completed memoir and a box filled with war letters that I have faithfully reassembled to chronicle and preserve the real-life story of his service and sacrifice during the second world war.